Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: Competitive

Permanent

Enterprise Architect – London, UK – Hybrid Working + Opportunity to direct the technical evolution of a Multinational Investment Bank + Comprehensive Healthcare, Retirement Provision, and Paid Employee Development

My client is one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory groups who interact with major corporations, families, and governments globally.

 

They offer mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and finance assistance, as well as investment and wealth management solutions.

 

They have an unmatched worldwide network of dependable experts and decision-makers thanks to their almost 200-year history at the centre of the world’s financial markets.

 

As a result, they have more comprehensive market knowledge than any other international financial institution, which puts us closer to the issues at hand.

 

About the Company:

This multinational company has a large client base and is among the most successful businesses in its industry.

 

They have often been acknowledged as a leader of the industry by official observers.

 

The company has 3,400 talented employees spread across in 50 offices around the world have a strong track record of outstanding execution in Global Advisory, Private Wealth and Asset Management, and Merchant Banking.

 

 

Culturally, the company goes that extra mile for their customers, balancing economic success with a commitment to upholding social values and promoting environmental sustainability.

 

Several FTSE 100 firms, as well as some of the biggest businesses in the world, are among the clients of this company.

About the Enterprise Architect opportunity

As part of the new Architecture function, you will play a significant role in helping the IT function’s strategic goals in the business application and data areas.

 

You will play a crucial role in the newly created Architecture function as you are required to make sure that the entire application and data architecture is maintained coherently and that suitable considerations are made for its security and quality.

 

You will play a significant role in advancing the business application and data domain strategic goals of the IT department.

 

To succeed in this role, you will need to be flexible and manage complexity, cost, and business requirements.

 

By offering solutions that reduce owner risk, you will also help the company run more efficiently.

 

You will implement the creation of technical roadmaps in addition to developing the target architecture, decommission legacy applications, and move more toward the target application portfolio.

 

You will help to create, design, and evaluate technical, application, and organisational architectures in accordance with the principles of IT architecture.

 

You will examine potential solutions to see whether they adhere to the company’s guiding principles.

 

When it comes to strategic architectural concepts, you will also participate in the decision-making process.

Responsibilities

 

• Construct initial designs for project solutions by considering both internal and external market/regulatory pressures.
• Manage stakeholders to ensure that the enterprise architecture informs the strategic investment plan and that all solutions provided achieve the strategic goal.
• Oversee the architectural design and delivery of solutions while collaborating with key partners. Keeping system and data security at the forefront of all designs

Ideal Requirements for this Role:

 

· Extensive experience working in IT Architecture

· TOGAF qualified

· Successfully provided architecture services to teams using waterfall and agile working methods

· Outstanding technical proficiency in the fields of application, data, and business architecture

· Open to travel

· Collaborative personality

· Strong stakeholder management experience