Enterprise Architect
Posted 2 weeks ago by Undisclosed
£552 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architect role involves developing and owning the technology strategy and architecture for Consumer Banking & Payments, focusing on areas such as Cards and Payment Gateways. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure technology services are customer-centric and aligned with business strategies. The architect will evaluate technology trends, create architectural frameworks, and ensure compliance with group policies while leading the implementation of scalable solutions. Strong experience in banking and financial services, along with technical expertise in distributed technologies, is essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce and own the technology strategy and architecture for Consumer Banking & Payments.
- Define technology strategy, roadmaps, and vision consistent with Group standards.
- Translate strategic business and technological goals using enterprise architecture techniques.
- Ensure technology services are customer-centric and support business unit strategies.
- Evaluate technology industry trends and their impact on architecture.
- Conduct technical briefings and recommend next steps to stakeholders.
- Develop proof of concepts for relevant technologies.
- Define technology architecture and strategy for Payment Gateways and Cards.
- Create target and transition architectures to support business strategies.
- Review end-to-end solutions and ensure architectural governance approvals.
- Evaluate current technology environment and recommend improvements.
- Support implementation of resilient, scalable solutions.
- Ensure compliance with group policies and applicable laws.
- Coordinate strategies and technology investment recommendations with colleagues.
- Maintain and track technical debt from changes to target state solutions.
- Articulate best practices and anti-patterns in technology application.
- Possess detailed knowledge of the Cards & Payments industry.
- Architect and deliver end-to-end solutions achieving complex business goals.
- Provide excellent customer/client experience with strong controls and collaboration.
- Demonstrate strong strategic vision and real-world architecture experience.
- Exhibit strong technical and engineering skills in complex technologies.
- Analyze and present complex information clearly to non-technology colleagues.
- Understand secure systems design and high-availability patterns.
- Work with architects and developers to resolve critical issues.
Key Skills:
- Experience in defining and implementing enterprise-wide technical solutions.
- Strong technical and engineering skills in distributed technologies.
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (AWS &/or Azure), micro-services, APIs, and ETL.
- Ability to analyze complex information and present it succinctly.
- Knowledge of secure systems design and resilience patterns.
- Experience in the Cards & Payments industry.
- Strong strategic vision and real-world architecture experience in banking/financial services.
- Excellent customer/client experience focus.
- Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.
- Experience in evaluating technology trends and their impact on architecture.
Salary (Rate): £552 daily
City: Northampton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Role Title: Enterprise Architect
Duration: contract to run until 30/12/2025
Location: Northampton, hybrid 2-3 days onsite
Rate: up to £552 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Key Skills/ requirements
- Produce and Own the technology strategy and architecture for one or more domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments e.g. Cards, Payment Gateways
- 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.
- 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;
- Leading the evaluation of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the architecture for the domain
- 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:
- Definition of the technology architecture and strategy for the domain areas in Consumer Banking & Payments with specific focus on Payment Gateways and Cards.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ensuring Technology services processes and controls are designed to comply with group policies to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Partnering with Engineers, Architects and broadly colleagues within O&T and Business community to coordinate strategies and technology investment recommendations
- Maintaining and tracking technical debt as a result of any changes to target state solutions to accommodate project
- Maintaining knowledge of relevant technologies at the core/internals levels in order to perform in Subject Matter Expert role
- 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.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!