Integration Architect - Contract

Rate: £900pd via an umbrella

Length: 6 months rolling - 2 year program

Location: City of London

3 days in office - 2 days wfh

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Integration Architect to support a complex digital transformation within a financial services environment, ideally across asset and wealth management. The successful candidate will define and guide integration architecture across client-facing digital applications, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to both current and future business needs.

This is a pragmatic, delivery-focused role requiring someone comfortable operating in fast-moving, changing environments, with the ability to balance technical design, stakeholder needs, roadmap control, and delivery constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the integration architecture across client-facing digital platforms, portals, and supporting systems.
• Assess existing legacy systems and design integration approaches that connect them effectively with modern platforms and APIs.
• Work closely with delivery, product, engineering, and business stakeholders to shape technical decisions and ensure alignment to scope and roadmap.
• Document architecture decisions, interface patterns, dependencies, risks, and assumptions clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support the design of resilient, scalable, and future-proof integration solutions.
• Provide guidance on API strategy, system interoperability, and platform integration across client/advisor-facing applications.
• Ensure integration designs support secure, maintainable, and efficient delivery in a regulated financial services environment.
• Contribute to technical governance, design reviews, and architecture assurance activities.
• Identify and manage technical constraints, dependencies, and trade-offs proactively to maintain delivery momentum.
• Collaborate with third parties and internal teams to drive delivery through complex transformation programmes.

Required Experience

• Strong background in integration architecture.
• Proven hands-on experience in client-facing digital/application environments, particularly client/advisor portals.
• Experience working across legacy and modern platforms, including APIs and integration patterns.
• Ability to document technical decisions and communicate them clearly to varied stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in complex, changing delivery environments.
• Experience controlling or influencing scope, roadmap, and delivery prioritisation.
• Background in financial services, ideally asset or wealth management.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with Backbase.
• Experience integrating broader client-facing financial applications, such as Salesforce.
• Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes.
• Experience designing solutions with futureproofing in mind.