Enterprise Architect/Technical Architect

CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY TECHNICAL ARCHITECT £800-£850 PER DAY

I'm currently recruiting for an experienced Technical Architect to join a leading global investment bank on a major technology modernisation programme within Custody and Securities Services.

Location: London - 3 days per week in the office
Rate: £800-£850 per day
Contract: Day-rate contract
CV deadline: 48 hours

THE OPPORTUNITY

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the architecture of critical financial services platforms, working across multiple custody domains, including:

• Securities Settlements

• Asset Servicing and Corporate Actions

• Transaction Management

• Tax

• Cash and FX Processing

You'll work closely with engineering teams, technology leaders and business stakeholders to design scalable, resilient solutions and support the modernisation of complex banking platforms.

KEY TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

I'm keen to speak with candidates who bring experience across several of the following areas:

Solution Architecture: Designing enterprise-scale solutions and modernising complex technology platforms.

Java & Microservices: Strong engineering foundations, ideally including Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and distributed systems.

Event-Driven Architecture: Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace or similar messaging technologies.

Data & Cloud: Oracle, PL/SQL, data integration, AWS and Snowflake.

Architecture Governance: Design reviews, architecture standards, non-functional requirements, technical debt and build-versus-buy assessments.

Securities Services: Knowledge of custody, post-trade processing, SWIFT messaging and ISO 20022.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

You'll have a strong technical background and proven experience delivering architecture solutions within investment banking, capital markets, custody or securities services.

Deep expertise in at least one custody domain, combined with broader knowledge of financial services technology, would be particularly valuable.

This is an excellent opportunity for an architect who can bridge hands-on engineering, strategic solution design and enterprise architecture governance.

Interested? Send me a direct message with your latest CV, and I'll share the full job specification and discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Please note: CV submissions are required within the next 48 hours, so early conversations are encouraged.