Lead Solution & Enterprise Architect

In this Lead Solution & Enterprise Architect role, you steer transformative architecture for major financial services programs. You will blend hands-on solution design with enterprise visioning for senior stakeholders, influencing technology decisions and delivery. You’ll guide architecture across business, data, application and technology domains while fostering a culture of collaboration and growth. A key hook is shaping AI-enabled approaches to accelerate design and governance within a responsible framework.

• Discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension
• Health insurance
• Mental health support
• Parental leave and family care benefits
• 40 hours/year learning and development

• Shape enterprise technology strategies, roadmaps and governance frameworks aligned to business priorities
• Design scalable, resilient solutions across legacy and cloud environments using modern patterns
• Lead cross-functional architecture and engineering teams to deliver with agility and learning
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and influence strategic decisions while contributing to business development
• Explore and apply approved AI tools and AI-enabled workflows with governance and human oversight

• Proven experience leading enterprise architecture initiatives across complex organisations
• Strong solution architecture across legacy and cloud environments with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure)
• Experience with modern distributed patterns (microservices, event-driven, containerised, serverless, zero-trust)
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in agile and DevOps contexts, using architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, DDD or NIST)
• Curiosity about AI-enabled ways of working and understanding of governance and responsible AI principles

• Stakeholder relationship building
• Collaborative leadership
• Strategic communication
• Enterprise and solution architecture
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• Distributed architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven, containerised, serverless