Strategic Technical Architect - Banking & Securities

Harvey Nash; City Of London; On-site; GBP 148,000 - 157,000; Part time

Job summary

Harvey Nash is recruiting an experienced Technical Architect to join a leading global investment bank on a major technology modernisation programme within Custody and Securities Services. The role is based in London with a 3 days-per-week in the office, offering an £800-£850 per day rate on a day-rate contract.

You will work with engineering teams, technology leaders and business stakeholders to design scalable, resilient platforms and oversee governance and standards across custody domains such

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering architecture solutions in investment banking or capital markets.
• Strong background in custody or securities services is highly valued.
• Ability to bridge hands-on engineering with strategic design and governance.

Responsibilities

• Shape architecture of critical financial services platforms across custody domains.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, technology leaders and stakeholders.
• Design scalable, resilient systems for modernisation programmes.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Java & Microservices

Event-Driven Architecture

Data & Cloud

Architecture Governance

Securities Services

Tools

Kafka

IBM MQ

Solace

Oracle

AWS

Snowflake

Spring Boot

Job description

Harvey Nash is recruiting an experienced Technical Architect to join a leading global investment bank on a major technology modernisation programme within Custody and Securities Services. The role is based in London with a 3 days-per-week in the office, offering an £800-£850 per day rate on a day-rate contract.

You will work with engineering teams, technology leaders and business stakeholders to design scalable, resilient platforms and oversee governance and standards across custody domains such