The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, evolving, and governing the Group's target technology architecture while remaining a hands-on technical leader. This role actively designs solutions, reviews implementations, and mentors engineering teams. The Enterprise Architect owns enterprise, solution, integration, and data architecture, technology standards, API strategy, and architectural roadmaps, ensuring the IT landscape is operationally resilient, scalable, and adaptive to future growth.
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The position requires alignment of in-house products and third-party platforms with a modern, cloud-native, AI-first architecture. The role champions modern engineering and AI-assisted architecture practices, leveraging architecture modeling, code analysis, automated documentation, and design validation to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of scalability, security, resilience, and maintainability across the company businesses.
This senior architecture leadership role requires collaboration with both business and technology groups to set standards through governance and to design and review real systems alongside the teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the Group's conceptual and target IT architecture and technology roadmap.
- Own enterprise, solution, integration, and data architecture.
- Drive cloud-native, AI-first architecture direction.
- Actively design solutions and review implementations.
- Own the Group API strategy and integration standards.
- Mentor enterprise architects, solution architects, and engineering teams.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and modern delivery practices.
- Design and operate the enterprise architecture governance framework.
Qualifications:
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems, or a related field.
- TOGAF certification is required; cloud architecture certification (Azure and/or AWS) at professional/architect level is preferred.
Knowledge, Experience, and Skills:
- Minimum 12 years in IT within financial services, including significant time in senior architecture or technical leadership roles.
- Proven experience in senior architecture roles designing and operating large-scale systems.
- Expertise in microservices architecture, OpenAPI, application integration, and public cloud migration.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted architecture/engineering tools and agile methodologies.
- Strong governance, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Language Requirements: English proficiency is expected.
