Senior Enterprise Architect

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Since the 1940s Citco has provided specialist financial services to alternative investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 14,000 employees in 45 countries we pioneer innovative solutions that meet our clients’ evolving needs, and deliver exceptional service.

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join Citco’s Architecture team. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic automation as key enabling capabilities.

The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization..

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures
• Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives
• Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture
• Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap

• Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives
• Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions
• Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities
• Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions
• Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity

• Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions
• Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams
• Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards
• Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions
• Promote observability, resiliency, and operational readiness by design

• Review and approve AI solution designs
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards
• Identify opportunities for reusable components
• Guide teams on technical implementation approaches
• Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms

• Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms
• Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions.
• Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
• Guide integration with existing enterprise systems

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
• Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems
• Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
• Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures
• Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)

You should possess the following skills:

• Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience
• Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
• Strong programming background in Python and/or Node.js, with the ability to understand and guide implementation‑level decisions
• Extensive hands-on…