Senior Technical Architect for Investment Banking & Custody

Harvey Nash Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 148,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash Group is seeking an experienced Technical Architect in London to shape architecture for a major technology modernisation programme in Custody and Securities Services. This day-rate contract offers £800-£850 per day with a London location and a 3-day-in-office pattern.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in investment banking, capital markets, custody or securities services, and will bridge hands-on engineering with enterprise architecture governance.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background delivering enterprise-scale architecture solutions.
• Experience across custody domains and at least one domain in investment banking or securities services.
• Ability to design scalable, resilient platforms and contribute to modernisation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale architectures for custody and securities services platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, technology leaders and stakeholders to deliver modernised banking platforms.
• Contribute to architecture governance, design reviews and non-functional requirements.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Kafka

IBM MQ

Solace

Oracle

PL/SQL

AWS

Snowflake

Architecture governance

Securities services

Tools

Spring Boot

Job description

Harvey Nash Group is seeking an experienced Technical Architect in London to shape architecture for a major technology modernisation programme in Custody and Securities Services. This day-rate contract offers £800-£850 per day with a London location and a 3-day-in-office pattern.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in investment banking, capital markets, custody or securities services, and will bridge hands-on engineering with enterprise architecture governance.