At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead architectural design and implement innovative tech solutions across various domains.
- Company: Dynamic financial services firm with a focus on cutting-edge technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with potential for career advancement and impactful projects.
- Why this job: Shape the future of banking with emerging technologies like AI and blockchain.
- Qualifications: Strong architecture skills and experience in diverse tech environments.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Edinburgh/Manchester/Bristol/Leeds
Type of Employment: Contract (Initially 1 year with possibility of extension)
In-scope technologies/products: Multiple tech skills across a range of technologies to support the CTO Architecture Platforms. Stakeholder Management, Architecture, Banking knowledge, Blockchain, DLP, Payments, Loans, Cards, Pensions, Markets, Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Agentic AI and Artificial Intelligence.
Skillsets required: Must be strong across architecture disciplines but also have an understanding and ability to take on 'Architecture as Code', concept of composability, ability to work across business domains and the capability to build architecture components themselves.
Scope of services:
- Cover multiple vacancies/secondments & mat leave cover within the CTO Architecture functions
- Produce high level architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'Architecture as Code'
- Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
- Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery
- Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, architecture and design roadmaps
- Stakeholder engagement both Internal and External involved in the programme
- Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns
