Queen Square Recruitment
Senior Enterprise Architect
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Senior Enterprise Architect
💰 £580-600/day (Inside IR35) | 📍 Manchester / Leeds / Edinburgh / Bristol (2 days onsite) 📅 12-Month Contract
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to support large-scale transformation and architecture initiatives across a range of business domains including Consumer, Commercial, Data & AI, Enterprise Functions, and Insurance platforms. You will be responsible for shaping future-state architecture, supporting transformation programmes, defining architecture standards and guardrails, and driving the adoption of modern approaches such as Architecture as Code and composable architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Define enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps, and future-state target architectures
- Produce high-level architecture views, capability models, and transformation plans
- Support the adoption of Architecture as Code and composable architecture principles
- Provide architectural leadership across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms
- Define architecture standards, principles, guardrails, and governance processes
- Support solution feasibility assessments and technology evaluations
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure architecture is practical and deliverable
- Define integration strategies including API-led and event-driven architectures
- Shape data architecture and technology delivery patterns
- Identify and manage cross-domain dependencies, risks, and architectural decisions
- Engage with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions
- Support architecture reviews, assurance activities, and governance forums
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive Enterprise Architecture experience within complex organisations
- Experience in CAPITAL MARKETS in financial services organizations
- Strong understanding of application, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud architecture
- Experience defining target-state architecture and enterprise roadmaps
- Strong knowledge of API-led and event-driven architectures
- Experience with hybrid cloud and modern hosting architectures
- Ability to work across multiple business domains and transformation programmes
- Experience producing architecture artefacts, decision records, and governance documentation
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to bridge strategic architecture and hands-on engineering delivery
- Understanding of composability and Architecture as Code concepts
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Desirable Experience
- Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Commercial or Consumer domain experience
- Data & AI architecture
- Cloud-native platforms and modern engineering practices
- Payments, Loans, Cards, Pensions, Markets, or Insurance platforms
- Machine Learning, AI, Agentic AI, or Data Platforms
- Blockchain, DLP, Security, or Enterprise Risk domains
- Architecture tooling and automation platforms
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