Enterprise Architect (Financial Services)

• Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with the company's business strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the development of future-state architectural blueprints and roadmaps across Infrastructure, Applications, Data, and Security domains.
• Provide architectural oversight and guidance for major programs and projects, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and strategic direction.

• Infrastructure Architecture: Design and govern the enterprise infrastructure landscape, including on-premise, cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), network, compute, storage, and virtualization technologies.
• Application Architecture: Define the application portfolio strategy, including integration patterns, microservices, API management, and technology selection for core banking, trading, risk management, and other FSI-specific applications.
• Data Architecture: Establish data governance frameworks, data modeling standards, data integration strategies, and data warehousing/analytics architectures to support business intelligence and regulatory reporting.
• Security Architecture: Develop and enforce security architecture principles and patterns, ensuring robust cybersecurity defenses, compliance with data privacy regulations, and secure application development practices.

• Drive the adoption and continuous improvement of architectural methodologies and frameworks, with a strong emphasis on TOGAF.
• Establish and lead architectural governance processes, including architectural review boards, to ensure consistent application of architectural principles and standards across the enterprise.
• Maintain and update architectural documentation, including architectural decisions, patterns, and reference architectures.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5 years in a dedicated Enterprise Architect role within the Financial Services industry (Banking, Insurance, Asset Management, Capital Markets).
• Proven experience in designing and governing end-to-end enterprise architectures across Infrastructure, Applications, Data, and Security domains.
• Demonstrable expertise with TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), ideally certified (TOGAF 9 or 10 certification highly desirable).
• Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native principles, APIs).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their architectural considerations.
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards and regulations applicable to FSI (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001) / MAS frameworks, TRM Guidelines, BCM, Cyber Hygiene, Outsourcing Guidelines, etc., will be a significant advantage.

Argyll Scott