Chief Architect

Tangible; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing fintech company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Chief Architect to define the technical vision behind their platform. This role demands a strategic leader with deep expertise in enterprise integrations and financial protocols. Responsibilities include designing secure systems, maintaining architectural standards, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in software architecture within financial services. Join us to drive innovation in the secondaries market.

Qualifications

• 10 years of professional experience in software architecture, with at least 5 years in financial services or fintech integrations.
• Proven expertise in API design, enterprise integrations, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of financial protocols (e.g. FIX, SWIFT, ISO 20022) and secure data exchange.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization, and networking.
• Hands-on experience with data security, encryption, and compliance frameworks (KYC/AML, PSD2, GDPR).
• Familiarity with identity and access management standards (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, SCIM).
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing technical strategy at the executive level.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, balancing innovation with regulatory and security rigor.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the technical architecture roadmap aligning it with business strategy.
• Drive architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, and security.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance platform performance.
• Own the end-to-end design of integrations with banks and financial institutions.
• Establish integration standards, APIs, and communication protocols.
• Design secure, high-performance systems supporting payments and settlements.
• Ensure adherence to financial and data security regulations.
• Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and operations teams.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.

Job description

Tangible is a fast-growing tech-driven platform providing liquidity solutions to LPs and GPs in the private-markets secondaries space. By combining deep sector expertise with modern infrastructure we unlock liquidity across private equity, private credit and real assets, transforming the industry and enabling investors to move faster and smarter.

We are looking for a Chief Architect to define and lead the technical vision behind Tangibles platform and integration strategy with global banks and financial institutions. This role is ideal for a strategic yet hands‑on technical leader with deep expertise in enterprise‑grade integrations, financial protocols, security and regulatory compliance. You will shape Tangibles technical foundation, building scalable, secure and interoperable systems that power liquidity across private markets.

Tasks

Technical Strategy & Vision

• Define and maintain Tangibles technical architecture roadmap aligning it with business strategy and long‑term growth objectives.
• Drive architectural decisions for scalability, reliability and security across all platform components and integrations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities to enhance platform performance and efficiency.

Architecture Design & Implementation

• Own the end‑to‑end design of integrations with banks, custodians and financial institutions.
• Establish and enforce integration standards, APIs and communication protocols to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Design and oversee secure, high‑performance systems supporting payments, settlements, KYC/AML workflows and regulatory reporting.
• Define and implement observability, resilience and fault‑tolerance strategies for high‑volume transaction processing.

Security Compliance & Governance

• Ensure adherence to financial and data security regulations (e.g. GDPR, PSD2, SOC2).
• Implement best practices for encryption, identity and access management (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, SCIM) and overall data protection.
• Define and uphold architectural standards, coding guidelines and review processes to maintain quality and reliability across teams.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product, engineering, compliance and operations teams to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison in discussions with external partners, including banks, financial institutions and vendors.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks and trade‑offs clearly to executive leadership and non‑technical stakeholders.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide technical leadership and direction to engineering teams, ensuring architectural consistency and delivery excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and technical mastery.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding and professional development across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 10 years of professional experience in software architecture with at least 5 years in financial services or fintech integrations.
• Proven expertise in API design, enterprise integrations and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of financial protocols (e.g. FIX, SWIFT, ISO 20022) and secure data exchange.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization and networking.
• Hands‑on experience with data security, encryption and compliance frameworks (KYC/AML, PSD2, GDPR).
• Familiarity with identity and access management standards (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, SCIM).
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams and influencing technical strategy at the executive level.
• Thrives in a fast‑paced startup environment, balancing innovation with regulatory and security rigor.

This is a rare opportunity to define the architectural backbone of a fast‑scaling fintech‑driving innovation trust, transforming the secondaries market at a global scale. If you’re inspired by complex systems and bold ideas, now is the time to join us.

Employment Type : Employee

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1