Banking Tech Architect — Cloud & APIs (Contract)

Consult; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 148,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking an experienced Technical Architect in Banking for a 6-month contract in Milton Keynes, UK. The role leads architecture design across cloud, integration, and banking platforms, ensuring security, regulatory compliance, and performance targets.

The successful candidate will drive API-based, event-driven, microservices solutions, mentor teams, and govern architecture standards within a banking context.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise-grade banking applications.
• Strong knowledge of cloud, integration platforms and banking systems.
• Proven ability to align architectures with regulatory requirements and security standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern application architecture standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient banking applications and create HLD/LLD documents.
• Drive modernization and transformation across banking platforms with governance.
• Lead technical governance sessions and mentor engineering teams.
• Define integration patterns between core banking systems and external apps.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

API Design

Event-Driven Architecture

Domain-Driven Design

Security & Regulatory

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Consult is seeking an experienced Technical Architect in Banking for a 6-month contract in Milton Keynes, UK. The role leads architecture design across cloud, integration, and banking platforms, ensuring security, regulatory compliance, and performance targets.

The successful candidate will drive API-based, event-driven, microservices solutions, mentor teams, and govern architecture standards within a banking context.