IT Architect

For a major financial organisation operating in an international clearing environment, IQ Staffing is looking for an Infrastructure & Technology Solution Architect. You will work across a complex global IT landscape where reliability, integration and well-considered technical decisions are essential.

Your role: design solution architectures within the organisation's wider technology architecture, helping ensure that platforms and technologies form a well-integrated global environment. Working closely with engineers, architects and other departments, you will translate business goals and technical requirements into clear architectural direction. Your involvement continues through implementation, helping teams make sound decisions, resolve technical challenges and deliver solutions in line with the agreed architecture.

Alongside solution design, you will provide platform engineering consultancy and help improve the processes used within the Architecture Centre of Excellence. What will you do? Develop Solution Intents that describe the proposed architecture, its purpose and the direction for implementation. Guide and govern the implementation of IT architecture solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements. Provide platform engineering advice to internal teams, supporting good engineering practices and effective use of technology.

Maintain a broad view of the technology landscape and how its platforms, systems and services connect. Improve and streamline processes within the Architecture Centre of Excellence. Collaborate with teams across departments to identify technical challenges, assess options and resolve issues. Develop and maintain documentation covering IT systems, processes and procedures. Assess technical risks and balance competing requirements across multiple projects and priorities.

What do you bring? You have at least five years of experience in IT infrastructure and technology engineering, with a focus on platform engineering, architecture and process enablement. You have worked in a comparably complex environment involving business-critical systems, internal and external stakeholders, different time zones and diverse cultures. You combine conceptual thinking with enough engineering understanding to make your architectural advice practical.

You can explain technical choices clearly, bring people together and help teams turn decisions into action.

You also bring: Experience in IT architecture, including implementing architectural designs. Knowledge of architecture methods and tools, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate. Strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills. The ability to communicate effectively with technical colleagues and stakeholders across the organisation. The confidence to work independently and the judgement to collaborate where needed. The ability to manage several projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

A proactive approach, taking ownership and responsibility for your work. A creative mindset and the ability to assess and evaluate risks. Experience that would be valuable: Knowledge or experience in one or more of the following areas would strengthen your application: Technology architecture, including application platforms, data structures, interaction patterns and data security. Cloud platform architecture, particularly AWS. Containerised, serverless and cloud-native applications.

Scalable, high-performance enterprise products. Infrastructure as code, using tools such as CDK or Ansible. DevOps practices and tooling, including GitLab pipelines and code scanning. ITIL or other IT service management frameworks. Why consider this role? This position gives you influence across a global technology environment, combining solution design, engineering consultancy and implementation guidance. You will work with teams across countries and disciplines, helping solve complex infrastructure challenges while improving how architecture supports delivery.

It is a role for someone who enjoys seeing the bigger picture, questioning technical choices and helping teams build solutions that hold up in practice.