Senior Enterprise Architect

Vallum Associates; Slough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect in the UK to shape future architectural views, roadmaps and 'Architecture as Code' patterns. You will guide strategy, standards and guardrails, and collaborate with cross-functional workstreams to deliver architecture designs and tooling strategies.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, transition states, and data delivery patterns. You will drive architecture across business domains and build reusable components within an

Qualifications

• Strong across architecture disciplines with Architecture as Code and composability; ability to work across business domains.
• Able to build architecture components themselves.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-level architecture, roadmaps and 'architecture as code' implementation.
• Provide architectural guidance and guardrails.
• Support transition states, designs and delivery.
• Collaborate with programme workstreams to drive roadmaps.
• Engage stakeholders internal and external.
• Deliver designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns.

Skills

Architecture as Code

Microservices

APIs

Event-Driven Architecture

Composable architecture

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Your responsibilities:

• Produce highlevel architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'ARchitecture as Code'


• Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.


• Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery


• Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, archiecture and design roadmaps


• Stakeholder engagment both Internal and External involved in the programme


• Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

Must be strong across architecture disciplines but also have a understanding and ability to take on 'Architecture as Code', concept of composiblty, ability to work across business domains and the capability to build architecture components themselves

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Business & Commercial Banking experience.


• Digital & Cloud-Native Architecture expertise.


• Microservices, APIs, and Event-Driven Architecture knowledge.


• Public Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).


• Agentic AI and Generative AI design & implementation.


• Intelligent Automation and AI-driven customer solutions.


• Strong business-facing stakeholder engagement.