LEAD IT ARCHITECT

About the role

• As our Lead IT Architect, you'll drive the technology landscape that supports our business and its future growth. Working closely with business stakeholders, software engineering teams, and infrastructure specialists, you'll turn business needs into secure, scalable, and practical technology solutions.
• In this role, you'll define our technology architecture, guide key technical decisions, and ensure developers and engineers drive the evolution of our application landscape. You'll work across teams to ensure our technology is fit for purpose, promote architecture best practices, and support engineers in a creative environment where knowledge is shared, innovation is encouraged, and continuous improvement is part of how we work.

What you'll do

• Define and maintain the target architecture for business applications and technology infrastructures, balancing needs in platforms in line with company's strategic objectives.
• Drive the evolution of the enterprise application landscape and contribute to the long-term technology roadmap.
• Establish and promote architecture principles, standards, and best practices.
• Evaluate and assess new solutions, architectures, patterns, and opportunities.
• Ensure architecture solutions align with security, scalability, performance, and compliance requirements.
• Support software engineering teams and decision-making in software architecture, guiding architectural decisions and supporting decision-making.
• Coach technical leads to ensure consistent use of best practices.
• Mentor software engineers and technical leads, encouraging knowledge sharing and sustainable software development.
• Ensure technology solutions comply with relevant regulatory, industry best practices.

What you'll need

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading software engineering initiatives and mentoring technical leads, with the ability to inspire collaboration and drive high performance.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills within the ability to balance strategic thinking and pragmatic solution design.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system integration, cloud technologies, APIs, distributed systems, and modern software development practices.
• Knowledge of financial markets, trading operations, and related regulatory requirements is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills for the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
• High level of flexibility, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Passion for innovation, continuous learning, and delivering high-quality technical solutions.