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Senior Front Office Architect
Location: London
Position Type: Permanent
Client: Leading Buy Side Organisation
We're partnering with a leading organisation to hire a Front Office Architect to take ownership of the technology strategy across their front office investment platform.
This is not a traditional architecture role focused on producing diagrams or reviewing solutions. You'll own the long-term direction of the platform, defining target architecture, driving standardisation across multiple technology domains and working closely with senior business, architecture and engineering stakeholders to shape the future investment technology landscape.
The platform supports the full front office investment lifecycle, including research, quantitative investing, portfolio construction, order generation and trading, with a strong focus on data, AI and platform modernisation.
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What you'll be doing
- Own the technology strategy, target architecture and roadmap for the front office investment platform.
- Drive standardisation, simplification and convergence across multiple technology domains.
- Partner with engineering teams to influence solution design and ensure architectural consistency.
- Work closely with investment stakeholders to translate business strategy into scalable technology direction.
- Shape the adoption of data and AI capabilities across the investment platform.
- Contribute to architecture governance, standards and best practice across the wider technology organisation.
We're looking for
- Experience as a technology leader within a complex financial services environment with architectural responsibility.
- Strong front office investment technology knowledge covering multiple domains.
- Experience defining platform strategy, target architectures and technology roadmaps.
- Deep understanding of modern architecture principles including cloud, APIs, event-driven architecture and data platforms.
- Experience working with front office investment platforms such as Aladdin, Charles River, SimCorp, Bloomberg AIM or thinkFolio.
- The ability to operate comfortably with senior stakeholders while remaining technically credible with engineering teams.
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This is an opportunity to own architecture across one of the firm's most strategically important technology platforms, combining broad business ownership with genuine technical influence in a highly collaborative environment.
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