Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Lead Enterprise Technical Architect
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Tittle – Senior / Lead Enterprise Technical Architect
Location: Cirencester, UK
Employment Type: Full-time
Domain: Wealth Management / Investments / Financial Services
Company Overview — Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Intellect Design Arena Ltd is a global financial technology leader delivering cloud-native, composable, and intelligent platforms to the world’s most progressive financial institutions. Built on deep domain expertise and design thinking, Intellect’s solutions span core banking, transaction banking, payments, cash management, treasury & capital markets, risk & compliance, wealth management and AI-driven data platforms.
Intellect’s technology ecosystem—powered by eMACH.ai, Purple Fabric, and modular open finance components—enables Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks to modernise legacy landscapes, accelerate digital transformation, and scale securely across geographies. The company serves 300+ financial institutions across 50+ countries, including many global systemically important banks.
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Role Overview
The Senior / Lead Enterprise Technical Architect is a hands-on technology leadership role responsible for the end-to-end technical architecture, solutioning, and engineering alignment of a large-scale Wealth Management platform.
You will work across applications, UI services, APIs, integrations, data, databases, AI/ML, AWS Cloud, infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, security, performance, scalability, and cost optimization. You are expected to be hands-on, technically deep, and closely engaged with engineering teams to ensure solutions are secure, performant, cost-effective, and production-ready.
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Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Enterprise Architecture: Define and govern architecture covering UI, microservices, APIs, integrations, databases, cloud, and operational platforms.
- Technical Solutioning: Convert complex functional requirements into practical technical designs, evaluating architectural trade-offs and tech stacks.
- AWS & Infrastructure Architecture: Design and optimize AWS cloud environments (EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM) focusing on resilience, scalability, and cost control.
- Integration Leadership: Implement REST, event-driven (Kafka), WebSockets, and Salesforce integration patterns.
- Containers & DevOps: Drive containerized architecture (Docker/Kubernetes) and embed complete CI/CD / DevSecOps lifecycles.
- Data & AI Architecture: Provide technical direction across RDBMS, NoSQL, Data Lakes, and AI/ML capabilities (LLM integration, RAG, vector databases).
- Performance & Security: Lead latency profiling, database tuning, DevSecOps, secrets management, and infrastructure sizing.
- Hands-On Leadership & Troubleshooting: Review designs, API contracts, database schemas, and Kubernetes manifests while leading complex root-cause analysis for production issues.
Core Technical Expertise Required
- Application & UI: Microservices, modern UI services, API/BFF patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Databases & Data: PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Spark/Databricks, ETL/ELT, CDC.
- Integration: REST APIs, API Gateways, Kafka, Kinesis, Event-Driven Architecture.
- AWS Cloud: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS.
- Containers & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps.
- Security: IAM, OAuth/JWT, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation.
- AI/ML: Machine Learning, GenAI, LLM integration, RAG, vector databases.
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Domain Experience Required
Strong understanding of the end-to-end Wealth Management / Investment lifecycle, including:
- Client & Account Onboarding
- KYC/AML
- Suitability
- Financial Advice
- Portfolio Management
- Investment Proposals
- Order Management
- Trading/Execution
- Allocation
- Settlement
- Custody
- Holdings
- Cash
- Pricing
- Valuation
- Performance
- Fees
- Taxation
- Reconciliation
- Reporting
Qualifications & Candidate Profile
- 15–20+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and enterprise/solution architecture.
- Proven track record in architecting large-scale financial platforms within Wealth Management or Banking.
- Strong ability to evaluate trade-offs between performance, scalability, security, complexity, and cost.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to bridge business requirements and engineering execution.
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