Risk Enterprise Architect
Posted 7 days ago by Robert Half
£80 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Risk-Focused Enterprise Architect involves defining and driving architectural strategy with a focus on risk remediation and operational controls within a global consulting firm. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure compliance with regulatory standards while shaping a cloud-native architecture roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in enterprise architecture within regulated financial services environments. This role emphasizes the importance of security and risk controls in architectural decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design enterprise-level architecture with embedded control, security, and risk adherence.
- Partner with compliance and audit to translate risk frameworks into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead remediation initiatives across data, infrastructure, and application layers.
- Influence C-level and senior stakeholders on architectural direction and trade-offs.
- Drive adoption of secure cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred) in a regulated environment.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in enterprise architecture within regulated financial services environments.
- Deep understanding of operational risk frameworks and policy-to-architecture traceability.
- Strong AWS/cloud-native architecture experience.
- Ability to lead remediation programmes focused on audit readiness, data governance, and infrastructure hardening.
- Proven track record of engaging compliance, risk, and product stakeholders at enterprise level.
Salary (Rate): £80.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architect – Risk-Focused (Financial Services) Robert Half is recruiting on behalf of a global consulting firm delivering a major architecture-led programme across a leading market data and index provider. We’re looking for a Risk-Focused Enterprise Architect to define and drive architectural strategy with a strong emphasis on risk remediation, operational controls, and governance frameworks.
Details:
- Start: ASAP
- Location: City of London (1–2 days onsite per week)
- Rate: £650–700/day PAYE + 12.07% holiday pay (No umbrella admin fees – employer’s NI & tax handled at source)
- Duration: Initial 6 months
Role Overview: As Enterprise Architect, you’ll shape a long-term cloud-native architecture roadmap, embedding security and risk controls into core platform design. You’ll operate at strategic level, collaborating with product, risk, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure all architectural decisions align with regulatory and audit readiness standards.
Key Focus Areas:
- Design enterprise-level architecture with embedded control, security, and risk adherence
- Partner with compliance and audit to translate risk frameworks into scalable technical solutions
- Lead remediation initiatives across data, infrastructure, and application layers
- Influence C-level and senior stakeholders on architectural direction and trade-offs
- Drive adoption of secure cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred) in a regulated environment
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in enterprise architecture within regulated FS environments (ideally capital markets, investment platforms, or index data)
- Deep understanding of operational risk frameworks and policy-to-architecture traceability
- Strong AWS/cloud-native architecture experience
- Ability to lead remediation programmes focused on audit readiness, data governance, and infrastructure hardening
- Proven track record of engaging compliance, risk, and product stakeholders at enterprise level