Senior Enterprise Architect - Banking Exp Mandatory
Posted 4 days ago by Vallum Associates
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Enterprise Architect role involves leading technical architecture initiatives across various domains including applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. The position requires hands-on experience in defining hybrid cloud architectures and engaging with engineering teams to implement effective solutions. The role is contract-based, inside IR35, and offers a hybrid working arrangement. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing architecture designs and guiding stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce high-level architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'Architecture as Code'
- Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
- Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery
- Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, architecture and design roadmaps
- Stakeholder engagement both Internal and External involved in the programme
- Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns
Key Skills:
- Strong technical architecture skills across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms
- Experience in defining hybrid cloud and hosting architectures
- Knowledge of API led and event driven integration patterns
- Understanding of non-functional design covering security, resilience, availability, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to engage with engineering teams and understand modern delivery practices
- Experience with 'Architecture as Code' and building architecture components
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
The Role: Senior Enterprise Architect
Location: Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Bristol, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 2 Days Onsite
Job Description: The role requires strong technical architecture skills across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. This includes hands on capability in defining hybrid cloud and hosting architectures, API led and event driven integration patterns, and non functional design covering security, resilience, availability, and regulatory requirements. The Enterprise Architect is expected to produce and assess solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade off analysis. Success in the role depends on the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand modern delivery practices, and working within technology guardrails from across the broader organization.
Your responsibilities:
- Produce high-level architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'Architecture as Code'
- Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
- Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery
- Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, archiecture and design roadmaps
- Stakeholder engagement both Internal and External involved in the programme
- Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Multiple roles across our Architecture Functions - Consumer and Digital x 3, IP&I x 1, Commercial x 5, Data & AI x 1 & Enterprise Functions x 3. and TS&I x 1. Must be strong across architecture disciplines but also have a understanding and ability to take on 'Architecture as Code', concept of compatibility, ability to work across business domains and the capability to build architecture components themselves.