AI-Driven Principal Enterprise Architect – Fintech

JD Williams & Company Limited; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)

Annual bonus scheme

Enhanced maternity and adoption leave

Company pension with up to 8% N Brown

Mental Health support

Financial wellbeing support

Stream - pay advancement tool

Colleague discount across N Brown

Onsite café

Life Assurance and Private Medical

Volunteer time

Job summary

N Brown is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead and shape the fintech architecture strategy from our Manchester-area hub. The role blends hands-on delivery with high-level design, guiding target-state architecture and ensuring technology investments align with business goals.

You will apply an AI-native approach to problem solving, model options, and craft scalable architectural outputs to support our Fintech start-up division and broader digital factory.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the enterprise target architecture, ensuring alignment between business strategy, technology priorities and delivery outcomes.
• Translate business direction into clear architectural approaches, principles and specifications that engineering and delivery teams can execute with confidence.
• Provide end-to-end architectural leadership across multiple domains, ensuring solutions work cohesively across the wider technology ecosystem.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, governance, design principles and integration patterns.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies and opportunities, escalating issues where appropriate and influencing decision‑making at senior leadership level.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Business stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered in line with agreed architectural direction.
• Drive simplification and modernisation of existing technology platforms, helping to reduce technical debt and legacy constraints.
• Use AI and automation as a core part of the architecture process to model options, test designs against constraints, improve specifications and create scalable, repeatable approaches across the Digital Factory.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, sharing insight and recommendations that improve organisational effectiveness.
• Contribute to commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives by providing architecture expertise, thought leadership and technical credibility.

Job description

N Brown is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead and shape the fintech architecture strategy from our Manchester-area hub. The role blends hands-on delivery with high-level design, guiding target-state architecture and ensuring technology investments align with business goals.

You will apply an AI-native approach to problem solving, model options, and craft scalable architectural outputs to support our Fintech start-up division and broader digital factory.