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Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect / Domain Architect
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) Contract: Initial 6 Months Day Rate: Competitive Start: ASAP Extension: High likelihood of extension
Overview
We are supporting a major UK banking organisation in the appointment of several experienced Enterprise and Domain Architects to join their CTO Architecture function. These positions will support a number of strategic transformation programmes across:
- Consumer & Digital Banking
- Commercial Banking
- Insurance, Pensions & Investments
- Data & AI
- Enterprise Functions
- Technology Services.
This is a highly visible architecture engagement where successful candidates will play a key role in:
- Shaping future-state technology strategies,
- Defining architectural roadmaps, and
- Driving adoption of modern architecture practices including Architecture as Code, composability, cloud-native design, AI, and emerging technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain target-state, future-state, and North Star architecture roadmaps across multiple business domains.
- Define architecture strategies, standards, principles, guardrails, and governance frameworks.
- Provide architectural leadership across large-scale transformation programmes.
- Support the transition from current-state to target-state architecture through detailed transition-state designs.
- Partner with programme leaders, product owners, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders to:
- Shape scope,
- Define requirements, and
- Deliver roadmaps.
- Drive architecture decisions across business, data, application, and technology domains.
- Contribute to the adoption of:
- Architecture as Code,
- Reusable architecture patterns, and
- Composable architecture principles.
- Provide guidance on:
- Emerging technologies,
- Industry trends, and
- Best practices.
- Support:
- Tooling strategies,
- Integration approaches,
- Data delivery patterns, and Platform evolution.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across:
- Technology,
- and business functions.
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Required Experience
Core Qualifications
- Extensive experience operating within Enterprise Architecture, Domain Architecture, or Solution Architecture functions.
- Strong understanding of architecture disciplines including:
- Business architecture,
- Application architecture,
- Data architecture,
- Technology architecture, and
- Integration architecture.
- Experience delivering architecture within complex enterprise environments, preferably within financial services or banking.
- Proven stakeholder management experience across senior business and technology leadership teams.
- Experience producing:
- Architecture roadmaps,
- Target-state architectures, and Strategic technology plans.
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Strong understanding of:
- Cloud platforms, and
- Modern engineering practices.
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Ability to bridge:
- Strategy, and Delivery with:
- Engineering teams,
- Programme teams.
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Experience defining:
- Architecture standards,
- Principles, and Governance frameworks.
Domain Specializations
Experience in one or more of the following domains:
- Retail / Consumer Banking
- Commercial Banking
- Insurance, Pensions & Investments
- Payments
- Cards
- Lending / Loans
- Markets & Trading
- Data & AI
- Enterprise Functions
Technical Exposure
- Architecture as Code
- Composable Architecture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agentic AI
- Machine Learning
- Blockchain
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Cloud Services and Cloud-Native Architectures
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