Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, evolving and governing the Group’s target technology architecture while remaining a hands on technical leader who actively designs solutions, reviews implementations and mentors engineering teams. The role owns enterprise, solution, integration and data architecture, technology standards, API strategy and architectural roadmaps, ensuring the IT landscape is fit for purpose, operationally resilient, scalable and adaptive to future growth.

The Enterprise Architect ensures that all in house products and third party platforms including Fimple and other strategic vendor systems align with a modern, cloud-native, AI-first architecture. The role champions modern engineering and AI assisted architecture practices, leveraging AI copilots, architecture modelling, code analysis, automated documentation and design validation to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of scalability, security, resilience and maintainability across Finance House Group businesses.

This is a senior architecture leadership role that stays deliberately close to the technology: the successful candidate partners with both business and technology groups, sets standards through governance, and earns authority by designing and reviewing real systems alongside the teams not by operating solely at the diagram level.

• Define the Group’s conceptual and target IT architecture and technology roadmap, aligned to business and IT strategy, ensuring interoperability, stability and long term sustainability.
• Own enterprise, solution, integration and data architecture as a coherent whole, maintaining reference architectures that enable seamless interaction across domains and business units.
• Drive a cloud native, AI first architecture direction, and continuously assess emerging technologies, benchmarks and technology watch to keep the landscape modern and competitive.
• Identify opportunities for application and infrastructure consolidation to reduce cost, enable growth and increase operational efficiency across the Group.

• Actively design solutions and review implementations across in house products and vendor platforms contributing to and critiquing real designs, APIs and code, not only high level blueprints.
• Provide deep expertise in cross-layer architecture patterns, microservices/SOA, OpenAPI, event driven design, data modelling, security and infrastructure to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.
• Own the Group API strategy and integration standards, ensuring consistent, secure and well governed interfaces across internal systems, partners and third-party platforms.
• Govern the architectural alignment of strategic vendor platforms (including Fimple), ensuring third party solutions integrate cleanly and meet Group standards for scalability, security and resilience.
• Mentor and uplift enterprise architects, solution architects, technical leads and engineering teams, raising the architectural maturity of the organisation.

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted architecture and engineering AI copilots, architecture modelling tools, automated code analysis, automated documentation and design validation to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
• Embed modern engineering practices (API-first, infrastructure as code awareness, automated architecture governance) into the delivery lifecycle in partnership with platform and product teams.
• Work closely with agile delivery teams, translating architectural intent into practical, incrementally deliverable designs.

• Design and operate the enterprise architecture governance framework principles, standards, templates, documentation and a business service catalogue and enforce it through design reviews and assessments.
• Ensure the overall architecture protects the organisation against IT risk and safeguards data integrity, embedding security and resilience by design.
• Conduct architecture assessments, impact analysis and research to ensure new business initiatives are incorporated into the landscape without compromising stability or scalability.
• Liaise with industry and common interest groups to benchmark and validate design blueprints and ensure effective interaction with external interfaces.

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align business, application, data and technology…