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We are working with a regulated UK bank specialising in correspondent banking, FX, and cross-border payments into emerging and frontier markets. As the bank embarks on a multi-year transformation toward an agentic, intelligence-driven Target Operating Model, we're seeking a strategic and technically strong Head of Architecture to define and drive enterprise architecture across a growing international banking platform.
Reporting directly to the CTO and working closely with the COO, you'll own and drive the bank's enterprise architecture strategy, leading a team of approximately 9 architects and acting as the senior architecture authority across the organisation.
You'll create a unified architectural vision, ensure alignment between business objectives and technology delivery, and lead architectural standards across complex banking and payments environments, all while operating as part of a small, senior Technology Leadership Team with genuine strategic influence.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive the bank's enterprise architecture strategy, developing a unified technology vision across the organisation
- Establish and evolve architecture governance, standards, and frameworks
- Ensure architectural decisions support long-term business objectives and regulatory requirements
- Lead a team of architects, providing strategic direction across technology domains
- Provide architectural leadership across international payments, FX platforms, correspondent banking, payment processing, and banking operations
- Design scalable platforms supporting cross-border payments and financial services, ensuring resilience, compliance, and operational efficiency
- Drive innovation initiatives, assessing how AI can be embedded into operational processes and banking services
- Evaluate agentic AI architectures and future-state intelligence models, partnering with business leaders to identify practical AI use cases
- Establish architecture frameworks and governance models, promoting best practice adoption across engineering and architecture teams
- Drive consistency across business, data, application, and technology architecture domains, leveraging recognised methodologies such as TOGAF
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- Strong preference for candidates with experience in correspondent banking, cross-border payments, FX platforms, international banking operations, payments infrastructure, or financial market infrastructure
- Proven Head of Architecture, Enterprise Architect, or Chief Architect experience
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, with experience implementing or operating within TOGAF-based environments
- Knowledge of modern cloud-native architecture
- Exposure to intelligent systems, AI, and emerging architecture patterns; understanding of agentic architecture concepts highly desirable
- Natural authority and gravitas, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders
- High energy and enthusiasm, comfortable operating at C-suite level
- Strong communicator, able to create alignment across technology and business functions
Location: London (Hybrid, 3-4 days per week)
Type: Full-time, Permanent
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