Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Job Location: London, UK / Hybrid

Job Type: Permanent

Job Description: Enterprise architect, Finance transformation with secondary focus on SAP transformation.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Bank\’s IT Architecture Team aligned to an IT Delivery Capability that delivers the transformation agenda and outcomes.
• Participate in workshops, providing quality assurance and gathering requirements to shape project deliverables.
• Understand the Bank\’s As-Is Architecture components including processes, capabilities, applications, technologies and integration.
• Formulate and document project artefacts including:
  • Design principles and policies
  • Technical Requirements (Functional and Non-Functional)
  • Technical standards
  • Key Decisions
  • Solution briefs and high-level designs
• Contribute to required procurement processes such as RFx, vendor selection and workshops.
• Oversee and assure the work of in-house and external design and delivery resources.
• Challenge delivery partner proposals where necessary to protect the Bank\’s interests and needs.
• Act as the key technical point of contact for partners and engage with internal teams.
• Support implementation arrangements and report to Service / Software Delivery Manager and the Chief Architect.
• Maintain solution architecture for the Treasury & Operations transformation, covering loan booking, payments, guarantees management, exotic trade pricing and booking, and market data management.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify and analyse solution options, providing technical steer for projects and BAU teams.
• Document and deliver solution architecture artifacts throughout the project delivery lifecycle.
• Align architectures, applications, and data across programmes to ensure consistency and quality.
• Build and maintain catalogues and models at appropriate abstraction levels.
• Identify and resolve issues and risks related to architectural activities.
• Propose appropriate technologies and techniques to meet programme challenges.
• Present and explain architecture matters in governance and other forums.

Qualifications

Essential

• Experience working with financial services.
• Excellent communication in written and verbal form.
• Extensive experience in solution architecture across Treasury Management Systems (TMS) and Commercial Lending solutions, with mandatory Finastra Summit experience.
• Understanding of financial processes including cash management, forecasting, risk management, payments, accounting, compliance.
• Extensive experience in solution architecture methodology and frameworks, demonstrating As-Is and To-Be patterns.
• Proven ability to transform business requirements and strategic aspirations into concise solution options within technical constraints.
• Awareness of leading industry trends in the architectural domain.
• Good formal modelling skills, including UML.
• Active engagement with current developments in architecture and related disciplines, tools, and markets.

Desired

• Experience in trade lifecycle management technical transformation, including Finastra Summit, integration of treasury systems with finance systems (e.g., S/4HANA), ActiveViam Atoti, and QuantLib.
• Knowledge of API integration and interfacing technologies.
• Programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, SQL.
• Experience in payment systems, including SWIFT.
• Ability to work across various technologies within the specific domain.
• Understanding of different project delivery lifecycle frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to develop deep business knowledge and offer cross‑functional advice.
• Experience in large IT and business change programmes.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple cross‑functional teams in an Agile delivery model.
• Experience documenting and presenting architectural artefacts to senior stakeholders and in governance processes.
• Experience operating in a mid‑sized corporate environment with legacy technology.
• Experience shaping architecture in an agile environment.
• Proven experience collaborating with challenging stakeholders.
• Demonstrable facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
• Capacity to make decisions under uncertainty with clear articulation of assumptions and risks.

Track Record

• Working collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals.
• Helping the team to succeed at all times and continuously improve.
• Managing time to deliver working solutions of acceptable quality.
• Adapting to change and challenging the team to deliver the best results.
• Working closely with the customer so that business value is first and foremost in all decisions.
• Negotiating and networking.
• Being dynamic and self‑motivated.
• Handling complex and fluid situations in a measured and collaborative way.
• Being persistent and resilient.
• Proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal customers.
• Working in a diverse environment.