Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets and Investments)

Description

The Markets business is growing quickly, and the company is looking for an Enterprise Architect to help shape its future target architecture. You will apply modern technology to real business problems and work closely with teams across the organisation.

You will design clear, practical architectures that support the Markets platform and strengthen the group's client offerings. The role is collaborative, and your ideas will shape both business outcomes and technology direction.

As lead Enterprise Architect you will manage a small team and own all architecture decisions in your area. You will guide and challenge Markets teams as they build and deliver strategic roadmaps, and you will represent the business when working with Group Enabling Platforms so that technology delivery matches business priorities.

You will build relationships across platforms, functions and third-party vendors. Your knowledge of Markets and investment banking will inform business propositions, vendor products and industry partnerships that better serve Commercial clients.

The team works in an agile way on complex, high-impact problems. Enterprise Architecture plays a central role in setting direction and making sure architecturally significant outcomes are delivered.

End date: Thursday 12 November 2026.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team and be accountable for all architectural decisions in your area.
• Guide, challenge and support Markets teams as they develop and deliver strategic roadmaps.
• Represent the business when working with Group Enabling Platforms so technology delivery matches business priorities.
• Build trusted relationships across platforms, functions and third-party vendors.
• Use your Markets and investment banking insight to shape business propositions, vendor products and industry partnerships for Commercial clients.
• Design clear, actionable architectures that support the Markets platform.
• Bring clarity to technical and business decisions on complex, high-impact work in an agile environment.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Markets or investment banking, including a deep understanding of front-to-back trading technology.
• Experience in enterprise architecture, ideally in Markets or investment banking.
• Experience shaping current, target and transition architectures, with clear roadmaps and practical technology strategies.
• Broad architecture knowledge across business, applications, data, infrastructure and security, including market and reference data.
• Experience leading architecture governance and design decisions for a team that works with the business.
• Understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, automation, observability and production readiness, plus DevSecOps, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to influence senior Technology, Risk and Business leaders and turn complex requirements into clear direction.

Conditions

Salary: £92,701 to £109,060.

Full-time hours.

Hybrid working, with 40% of time (two days) in the London, Edinburgh or Bristol office.

Job share is available.

Flexible working options are available; ask for details.

Equal opportunity: the company welcomes applications from everyone and makes reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and at work.

Benefits

• Pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual bonus, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Lifestyle benefits, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave.
• Health support including a menopause health package and a Working with Cancer Initiative.