Senior Product Architect for Europe Growth (AWS, Kafka)

Harvey Nash; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash is seeking a Senior Product Architect to lead architectural direction across European investment and advisory businesses. You will partner with multiple engineering teams to shape target architecture, define data contracts and deliver practical reference implementations.

In this senior role, you will influence senior stakeholders, drive modern cloud-native patterns, and leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and scalable practices.

Qualifications

• Approximately three to five years experience in an architect role within large-scale or complex technology environments.
• Financial services experience, particularly within regulated organisations.
• Strong technical credibility with software engineers and a sound understanding of modern software delivery.
• Substantial experience designing and delivering solutions in AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Java-based back-end architectures, distributed systems and integration patterns.
• Ability to operate across several engineering teams and connect product, business and technology perspectives.
• Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders and challenging decisions constructively.
• Experience applying generative AI to architecture and engineering workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the target architecture for assigned product domains, balancing strategic direction with pragmatic delivery.
• Partner with multiple engineering teams across investment servicing capabilities and portfolio management as the area grows.
• Work closely with engineering leaders, product teams, senior technology stakeholders and business partners across Europe.
• Provide architectural guidance for Java-based back-end services, AWS and event-driven solutions.
• Support the move towards streaming architecture using technologies like Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
• Define domain boundaries, data contracts and schemas at enterprise and product levels.
• Create reference architectures and working examples for engineering adoption, including AI-assisted tooling.
• Translate business needs into robust, scalable technical designs while managing competing priorities.
• Contribute to architecture standards, governance forums, and engineering committees across Europe and the US.
• Strengthen architecture practices during scale-up with capability mapping and proportionate processes.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Java backend

Distributed systems

Event streaming

Kafka

Flink

AI-assisted architecture

Stakeholder management

Capability mapping

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Harvey Nash is seeking a Senior Product Architect to lead architectural direction across European investment and advisory businesses. You will partner with multiple engineering teams to shape target architecture, define data contracts and deliver practical reference implementations.

In this senior role, you will influence senior stakeholders, drive modern cloud-native patterns, and leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and scalable practices.