Senior Enterprise Architect

Role/Job title: Senior Enterprise Architect

Work Location: Manchester / Leeds / Edinburgh or Bristol

Mode of working: Hybrid (2-days per week based on-site)

Duration of assignment: 1 year

Are you a proven Senior Enterprise Architect with experience in producing high-level architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'Architecture as Code'?

If so, our client TCS a purpose-led transformation company who work along-side a leading UK-based financial services group that provide a wide range of banking and financial services, focused primarily on retail and commercial customers are currently looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise architecture capability within the CTO – Insurance (IP&I)/ Consumer/Commercial/Data & AI/Enterprise Functions. Working within agreed architectural direction, the role supports the development, documentation, and assurance of end-to-end architectures across multiple domains. This includes shaping solution designs, supporting feasibility assessments and roadmaps, producing architectural artefacts, identifying cross domain dependencies and risks, and contributing to architecture governance.

The role works closely with delivery, platform, and engineering teams to maintain architectural coherence while enabling pragmatic delivery.

The role requires strong technical architecture skills across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. This includes hands on capability in defining hybrid cloud and hosting architectures, API led and event driven integration patterns, and non-functional design covering security, resilience, availability, and regulatory requirements. The Enterprise Architect is expected to produce and assess solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade off analysis. Success in the role depends on the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand modern delivery practices, and working within technology guardrails from across the broader organisation.

Your responsibilities:

* 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

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

* Multiple roles across our Architecture Functions - Consumer and Digital x 3, IP&I x 1, Commercial x 5, Data & AI x 1 & Enterprise Functions x 3. and TS&I x 1.

* Must be strong across architecture disciplines but also have an understanding and ability to take on 'Architecture as Code', concept of compossibility, ability to work across business domains and the capability to build architecture components themselves

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

* 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
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed