Enterprise Architect

About Us: Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is a leading independent bridging finance provider based in the United Kingdom. With a strong presence in the market, we specialise in offering fast and flexible bridging loans and buy-to-let mortgages to our valued intermediaries and clients.

Role Purpose: We are looking for a strategically minded and technically experienced Enterprise Architect to take ownership of the company’s overall technology architecture. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping and guiding the evolution of our digital landscape, ensuring all technology decisions align with the business’s long-term goals and operational needs. You will be responsible for defining the architectural roadmap across platforms and systems, including Salesforce, supporting applications, Azure cloud infrastructure, and a wide range of SaaS and cloud-based solutions. This role is key to ensuring technology is leveraged efficiently, scalably, and securely across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technology Strategy & Architecture Planning

• Design and maintain the enterprise architecture blueprint that aligns technology investments with business objectives.
• Act as the architectural thought leader, developing and championing technology strategies that enable agility, scalability, innovation, and operational efficiency.
• Define and communicate architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks across the organisation to solution design and technology decision-making.
• Lead the architectural planning for new systems, applications, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Identify future-state technology needs and plan for systems, integrations, and infrastructure to support business growth and transformation.
• Provide architectural oversight of Salesforce and its supporting ecosystem (e.g., integrations, middleware, third-party applications).
• Support the entire Salesforce ecosystem, including supporting applications, middleware (e.g., MuleSoft), and third-party integrations, ensuring a seamless and scalable architecture.
• Ensure Salesforce is integrated effectively with core systems and evolves to meet changing business requirements, enabling efficient workflows and unified data access.

• Define and lead the architectural strategy for all cloud-based platforms, with a particular focus on leveraging the full capabilities of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (e.g., Azure App Services, Azure AD, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps).
• Work with infrastructure and security teams to ensure scalability, availability, and governance of cloud environments.
• Ensure that cloud environments are scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-optimised, while supporting current and future business demands.
• Establish and maintain best-practice cloud architecture frameworks, including automation, monitoring, and deployment pipelines.
• Design and implement a hybrid-cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates on-premise systems, cloud services, and SaaS platforms, ensuring operational continuity and flexibility.
• Promote and enforce interoperability, data integrity, and system performance across all cloud and SaaS environments, including identity management, access control, and API integration standards.
• Evaluate and recommend new Azure services and features to improve performance, reduce cost, and support innovation across business and technology functions.

• Lead the assessment, selection, and integration of SaaS platforms, ensuring all new technologies are architecturally sound, interoperable, and strategically aligned with business objectives.
• Establish a clear architectural framework for SaaS adoption, including platform evaluation criteria, security reviews, and data residency considerations.
• Design and maintain integration strategies and reference architectures that enable scalable, secure, and reliable data exchange between cloud, SaaS, and on-premise systems.
• Champion the use of modern integration tools and platforms such as APIs, web services, MuleSoft, and iPaaS solutions, ensuring consistent standards across the organisation.
• Ensure data flow, integrity, and governance across systems through scalable integration frameworks and tools (e.g., API, iPaaS, MuleSoft).
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to ensure data integrity, lineage, and consistency across all systems, while minimising redundancy and integration debt.

Role Requirements:

• Essential:

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a senior architecture role within a complex & growing business environment.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and its broader application landscape.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise cloud architecture patterns.
• Experience designing solutions using cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Strong capability in systems integration, data architecture, and application lifecycle management.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into strategic business discussions.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.

• Certifications such as TOGAF, Salesforce Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect.
• Knowledge of MuleSoft or other integration platforms.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment strategies.

Why Work for us?

• Be Part of a Dynamic and Growing Company.
• Annual salary review & regular appraisals.
• Bonuses and Incentives.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave Package.
• Exclusive Employee Discounts at Leading Retailers (covering groceries, technology, and holidays).
• Ongoing Staff Training and Development Opportunities.
• Private Medical Health Care with Vitality.
• Life Insurance Coverage.
• Additional Day Off to Celebrate Your Birthday.
• Engaging Work Networking and Team Building Event.

Next Steps: Ready for an exciting career move? Hit ‘apply’ to express your interest, and if your CV aligns with our requirements, expect a call from one of our team soon to discuss this fantastic opportunity further.