Senior Technical Architect - Custody & Securities Services
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Location: Canary Wharf, London (3 days onsite / 2 days remote)
Contract: 12 Months
Rate: Up to £850 per day Inside IR35 (via Umbrella)
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to play a pivotal role in the modernisation of a global Custody and Securities Services technology landscape.
Working within a large-scale financial services environment, you will provide architectural leadership across complex post-trade platforms supporting areas such as Securities Settlements, Asset Servicing, Transaction Management, Cash & FX Processing and Tax Operations.
This is a high-impact role where you will partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders to define architecture strategy, drive platform transformation, establish governance standards and ensure solutions are scalable, resilient and fit for future growth.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead solution architecture across critical custody and securities services platforms.
- Design and deliver modern microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Define integration patterns using APIs, messaging technologies and cloud-native services.
- Drive application modernisation initiatives, replacing legacy and batch-based systems.
- Establish and govern architecture standards covering performance, resilience, security, scalability and recoverability.
- Lead architecture reviews and support governance processes including Permit to Build (P2B) activities.
- Partner with development teams to ensure architectural alignment throughout delivery.
- Evaluate third-party platforms and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions.
- Identify and manage technical debt whilst defining long-term remediation strategies.
- Build proof-of-concepts to validate new technologies and integration approaches.
- Explore opportunities to leverage Generative AI and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity and governance processes.
Required Experience
- Extensive experience working as a Technical Architect, Solution Architect or Lead Architect within Financial Services. xgikmsk
- Strong understanding of Custody Services, Securities Services, Capital Markets or Post-Trade processing.
- Experience across one or more of the following domains:
- Securities Settlements & Clearing
- Asset Servicing / Corporate Actions
- Transaction Management
- Cash Management & FX
- Tax Processing
- Strong software engineering background with experience of:
- Java
- Spring / Spring Boot
- Oracle, SQL Server or ...
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