Senior Enterprise Tech Architect, Wealth Mgmt Platform

Intellect Design Arena Ltd; Cirencester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellect Design Arena Ltd is seeking an Enterprise Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for a large-scale Wealth Management platform. You will align applications, UI services, APIs, data, and cloud infrastructure with security and cost efficiency in mind.

The role requires hands-on leadership, deep technical depth, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern tech stacks.

Qualifications

• 15–20+ years of progressive software engineering and enterprise/solution architecture experience.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale financial platforms within Wealth Management or Banking.
• Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs between performance, scalability, security, complexity, and cost.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to bridge business requirements and engineering execution.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Enterprise Architecture: Define and govern architecture covering UI, microservices, APIs, integrations, databases, cloud, and operational platforms.
• Technical Solutioning: Convert complex requirements into practical technical designs, evaluating trade-offs and tech stacks.
• AWS & Infrastructure Architecture: Design and optimise AWS cloud environments focusing on resilience, scalability, and cost control.
• Integration Leadership: Implement REST, event-driven (Kafka), WebSockets, and Salesforce integration patterns.
• Containers & DevOps: Drive containerized architecture (Docker/Kubernetes) and embed CI/CD / DevSecOps lifecycles.
• Data & AI Architecture: Provide direction across RDBMS, NoSQL, Data Lakes, and AI/ML capabilities.
• Performance & Security: Lead latency profiling, database tuning, DevSecOps, secrets management, and infrastructure sizing.
• Hands-On Leadership & Troubleshooting: Review designs, API contracts, and Kubernetes manifests while leading root-cause analysis.

Job description

Intellect Design Arena Ltd is seeking an Enterprise Technical Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for a large-scale Wealth Management platform. You will align applications, UI services, APIs, data, and cloud infrastructure with security and cost efficiency in mind.

The role requires hands-on leadership, deep technical depth, and collaboration with engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern tech stacks.