Enterprise Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by fortice
£450 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Hybrid - Northampton, UK
Summary: The Enterprise Architect role involves leading the technology strategy and architecture for Consumer Banking & Payments, particularly focusing on Cards and Payment Gateways. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure technology services align with business goals and customer needs. The architect will also evaluate current technology environments and recommend improvements while maintaining compliance with group policies. This role is critical in driving innovation and delivering complex solutions in the banking sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce and own the technology strategy and architecture for Consumer Banking & Payments.
- Define technology strategy, roadmaps, and vision consistent with group standards.
- Ensure technology services are customer-centric and support business strategies.
- Lead evaluation of technology trends and their impact on architecture.
- Investigate technologies and recommend next steps to stakeholders.
- Define technology architecture and strategy for Payment Gateways and Cards.
- Create target and transition architectures to support business strategies.
- Evaluate current technology environment and recommend improvements.
- Ensure compliance with group policies and applicable laws.
- Partner with engineers and architects to coordinate technology strategies.
- Maintain and track technical debt related to project changes.
- Articulate best practices and anti-patterns in technology application.
Key Skills:
- Detailed knowledge of the Cards & Payments industry.
- Experience in architecting and delivering end-to-end solutions.
- Ability to provide excellent customer/client experience.
- Real-world architecture experience in banking/financial services.
- Strong technical and engineering skills in complex technologies.
- Ability to analyze and present complex information clearly.
- Understanding of secure systems and software design considerations.
- Exposure to complex, distributed technologies and cloud solutions.
- Hands-on capability to work with architects and developers.
Salary (Rate): £450/day
City: Northampton
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architect
Location: Northampton
Duration: 31/12/2025
IR35 status: Mandated PAYE
We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require an Enterprise Architect to join them on a banking project that's based largely in Northampton.
Role Description:
?Enterprise Architect
Produce and Own the technology strategy and architecture for one or more domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments eg Cards, Payment Gateways
o Defining the technology strategy, roadmaps and vision consistent with wider Group standards. Using enterprise architecture techniques, focusing on business outcomes, in conjunction with respective CIO, Business Architects and business stakeholders, to translate strategic business and technological goals.
o Ensuring that technology services are highly customer and client-centric in both providing innovative and progressive products and services, and in partnering with the Business Units to ensure their client and customer strategies are successfully achieved;
o Leading the evaluation of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the architecture for the domain
o Investigating specific technologies, conducting technical briefings and recommend next steps to Operations & Technology stakeholders at all levels. Researching relevant technologies and demonstrate their benefits by developing proof of concepts where necessary.
? You will be accountable for architecture services:
o Definition of the technology architecture and strategy for the domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments with specific focus on Payment Gateways and Cards.
o Creation of target and transition architectures that enable the organisation to successfully pursue and realise business strategies. Reviewing Concept, End to End Solution including Functional and Technical designs, ensuring appropriate architectural governance approvals are obtained.
o Leading the evaluation of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Supporting the implementation of resilient, scalable solutions for the business line.
o Ensuring Technology services processes and controls are designed to comply with group policies to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
o Partnering with Engineers, Architects and broadly colleagues within O&T and Business community to coordinate strategies and technology investment recommendations
o Maintaining and tracking technical debt as a result of any changes to target state solutions to accommodate project
o Maintaining knowledge of relevant technologies at the core/internals levels in order to perform in Subject Matter Expert role
o Articulating and establishing best practices and anti-patterns in application of technologies in question
- Detailed knowledge of the Cards & Payments industry and the wider competitive environment (including history, trends, future development) to support formation of technology strategies that exploit innovation in this field
- Experience in architecting and delivering commercially proven, end to end solutions achieving complex business goals, including integration projects/programmes across disparate technologies, application/infrastructure integration within one or more areas of the CB&P domains capabilities is a pre-requisite
- Ability to provide an excellent customer/client experience, underpinned by a lean cost base, strong controls and a culture of collaboration, innovation and high performance. Very strong strategic vision.
- Real world architecture experience in banking/financial services is essential with significant practical experience of defining and implementing enterprise wide technical solutions
- Strong Technical and Engineering skills with hands-on experience in the design and implementation of complex, distributed technologies, cloud (AWS &/or Azure), micro-services, messaging, APIs, Data transformation, ETL, Monitoring tools, Infrastructure and Security solutions.
- The ability to analyse and distil complex information quickly, presenting to non-Technology colleagues in a clear and succinct manner.
- Understanding of key considerations in Secure systems & software design, Resilience and High-Availability patterns for mission-critical applications, including multi-data-centre deployments
- Exposure and experience of complex, distributed technologies, cloud, micro-services, messaging, APIs, Data transformation, ETL, Monitoring tools
- Hands on capability to work with the LA, Solution Architects, Designers and developers in supporting resolution of any critical issues.