Enterprise Architect - Application

Enterprise Architect - Application & Integration

Sector: Financial Services Industry: Banking
Location: Remote with travel to Swindon, UK - onsite 1-2 days per week (flexible after initial 3-4 weeks) Rate: 800 per day Inside IR35

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Architect specialising in Application & Integration Architecture to support a large-scale banking and financial services environment.

This is a senior technical leadership role requiring extensive experience defining architecture strategy, providing governance and ensuring complex enterprise solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing.

The successful candidate will combine strong hands-on software architecture expertise with the ability to establish technical vision and provide architectural leadership across major programmes. You will work closely with customers, product teams, delivery managers, technical stakeholders and senior executives to ensure consistency between business objectives, architecture strategy and solution delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise application and integration architecture strategy.
• Establish the technical vision and architectural direction for complex, large-scale programmes.
• Lead the design of secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing enterprise solutions.
• Provide architecture governance across multiple projects and delivery workstreams.
• Ensure solution designs remain consistent with wider enterprise architecture principles and technical standards.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, from initial strategy and design through to delivery.
• Review architecture and solution designs, identifying technical risks, dependencies and areas requiring improvement.
• Work closely with delivery teams to ensure architectural decisions can be successfully implemented.
• Engage with customers, product management, delivery managers and executives on architecture strategy and technical direction.
• Provide expert guidance on complex application and integration architecture decisions.
• Maintain architectural consistency across large-scale programmes.
• Balance strategic architectural objectives with the practical requirements of solution delivery.

Candidates should demonstrate substantial experience across:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Technical architecture strategy and governance
• Enterprise software platform architecture
• Architecture and delivery across large-scale programmes
• Designing secure, scalable, resilient and high-performing solutions
• Architecture governance and technical leadership
• Defining technical vision and maintaining architectural consistency
• Strong hands-on software architecture expertise
• Senior-level stakeholder management
• Working with customers, product management, delivery managers and executive stakeholders
• Translating complex business and technical requirements into effective architecture
• Providing architectural leadership from strategy through to implementation

Core Experience

• Enterprise Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• AWS / Azure
• Microservices
• API Architecture / API Integration
• Kubernetes / Containers
• Cloud-native architecture
• Security & Resilience
• Architecture Governance

Candidate Profile

This role would suit a highly experienced Enterprise Architect / Lead Architect who has operated at a strategic level while retaining strong hands-on knowledge of software and solution architecture.
Candidates should be comfortable providing technical leadership across complex programmes rather than focusing solely on producing high-level architectural documentation.
The role requires someone capable of setting the architectural direction, challenging technical decisions where necessary and working closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions can be successfully implemented.

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