Arthur Recruitment
Lead Enterprise Architect
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Lead Enterprise Architect, Corporate Services
Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
I’m working with a leading, highly regulated financial services organisation in London that is looking to appoint a Lead Enterprise Architect to take strategic architectural ownership across its Corporate Services domain.
The Role
This is not a traditional Solution Architecture or Programme Architecture position. You will operate at a strategic Enterprise Architecture level, working closely with senior business and technology leaders across areas including:
- Finance and Finance Transformation
- General Ledger and core Finance platforms
- SAP Finance
- FP&A and Treasury
- Investment Management
- Financial and Management Reporting
- Enterprise, Operational and Financial Risk
- Regulatory Reporting
- Risk Platforms and Modelling
- Actuarial functions
- HR, Workday and Payroll
- Legal and regulatory capabilities
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Key Responsibilities
You will take ownership of the architectural vision and strategy for the domain, including:
- Developing 1, 3 and 5 year business and technology architecture roadmaps
- Defining target states and Enterprise Architecture principles
- Aligning domain strategy with wider enterprise and technology strategy
- Acting as a strategic technology partner to senior Finance and Risk stakeholders
- Providing architecture oversight across major transformation programmes
- Supporting strategic technology, procurement and investment decisions
- Managing and simplifying the application landscape
- Identifying and reducing technical debt
- Ensuring architecture aligns with regulatory and control requirements
- Translating complex architectural decisions into clear commercial language
- Assessing emerging technology and where it can deliver genuine business value
What We’re Looking For
The strongest candidates will combine:
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- Enterprise Architecture + Finance/Risk Domain Expertise + Executive Communication
You will ideally have:
- Extensive Enterprise Architecture experience within a complex organisation
- Experience operating at Enterprise level rather than purely Solution or Programme Architecture
- Strong Finance and/or Risk domain expertise
- Experience defining architecture strategies, target states and multi year roadmaps
- A good understanding of Finance and Investment operations
- Strong architecture governance experience
- Experience working within regulated environments
- Broad understanding of application landscapes, integration and technology strategy
- Proven experience influencing senior executives and business leaders
- The ability to simplify complex technology topics and connect them to business outcomes
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
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