Senior Enterprise Architect

Queen Square Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Square Recruitment seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect for a major Business & Commercial Banking technology programme. You will shape enterprise and end-to-end architectures, define future-state roadmaps and support complex transformation across cloud, data and infrastructure domains.

The role requires strong Commercial Banking/Financial Services architecture experience, with a broad tech footprint including cloud and integration.

Qualifications

• Senior Enterprise Architect with banking domain experience.
• Experience shaping enterprise and end-to-end architectures in financial services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud, data, integration and infrastructure architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define high-level, future-state architectures and roadmaps.
• Shape end-to-end architectures across cloud, data and infrastructure domains.
• Provide architectural direction covering strategy, standards and guardrails.
• Develop transition-state architectures and support delivery through implementation.
• Influence senior stakeholders across CTO, CIO and business units.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Commercial Banking architecture

Cloud architecture

Azure

Data integration

Infrastructure architecture

Architecture governance

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Azure

Architecture as Code

Job description

Senior Enterprise Architect – Business & Commercial Banking

Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to support a major Business & Commercial Banking technology programme. You’ll work across business, architecture, engineering and delivery teams to shape enterprise and end-to-end architectures, define future-state technology roadmaps and support complex transformation and modernisation initiatives. This role requires strong Commercial Banking/Financial Services architecture experience, combined with broad expertise across cloud, integration, data and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Define high-level, future-state and North Star architectures, technology views and strategic roadmaps.
• Support the adoption of Architecture as Code approaches.
• Shape end-to-end architectures across cloud, data, integration and infrastructure domains.
• Provide architectural direction covering strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
• Develop transition-state architectures and support architecture delivery through implementation.
• Work directly with programme and workstream leads to shape scope, requirements, architecture and design roadmaps.
• Produce architectural artefacts and identify cross-domain dependencies, risks and design impacts.
• Lead and support feasibility assessments and solution designs.
• Define tooling strategy and data delivery/integration patterns.
• Provide architectural assurance and contribute to architecture governance.
• Influence senior stakeholders across CTO, CIO, Engineering, Architecture and Business teams.
• Work closely with delivery, platform and engineering teams to ensure architectural coherence while enabling pragmatic delivery.
• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience within Commercial Banking, Business Banking or Corporate Banking.
• Strong understanding of the architectural challenges associated with banking and financial services.
• Broad architecture expertise across cloud, integration, data and infrastructure.
• Strong experience defining target-state/North Star architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Experience shaping complex transformation and modernisation programmes.
• Strong solution and enterprise architecture capabilities applied to complex business problems.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across CTO, CIO, Architecture, Engineering and Business functions.
• Strong understanding of modern technology architecture, standards, principles and governance.
• Experience working closely with engineering, platform and delivery teams.
• Strong Microsoft Azure architecture and cloud solution design experience.
• Experience leading or providing direction to a small team of Enterprise Architects.
• Experience architecting technology platforms supporting global business operations.
• Knowledge of regulatory and governance requirements within banking.