Job Title: Head of Architecture Standards, Patterns & Governance

Location: Slough, United Kingdom

Company: Intelix.AI

Job Category: Other

Work Permit: EU work permit required

Job Views: 3

Posted Date: 10.06.2025

Expiry Date: 25.07.2025

Job Description:

London | Hybrid

Up to £155k + Bonus & Benefits (Flexible)

Lead the Architecture Practice & Domain Centre of Excellence that underpins change portfolios such as platform migrations, hybrid-cloud adoption, data-mesh enablement, and legacy retirement. Own the meta-model, reference architectures, and policy-as-code controls to industrialise delivery, reduce costs, and meet global regulatory standards.

• Architecture Operating Model: Refine and enforce the TOGAF-aligned meta-model, artefact taxonomy, and governance cadence across technology domains.
• Policy-as-Code Automation: Embed Open Policy Agent or similar into CI/CD and cloud pipelines to automate controls, aiming for ≥90% automation coverage.
• Domain Standards & Reusable Components: Curate, publish, and measure reuse of cloud landing zones, data-platform blueprints, integration patterns, and security baselines.
• Architecture Review Authority: Chair Enterprise & Solution Design Boards; arbitrate design disputes and report KPI adherence to ELT.
• Practice Leadership: Manage 5-10 Domain Architects across various domains and run the global community-of-practice.
• Regulatory & Risk Alignment: Ensure architectures meet FCA/PRA, GDPR, and regional regulations; provide board-level traceability on resilience and data protection.
• Transformation Acceleration: Collaborate with program directors to retire legacy systems, adopt event-driven platforms, and enable AI/ML workloads through compliant cloud patterns.

Candidate Profile – Must Have:

• 15+ years of enterprise architecture experience in global, regulated financial services or equivalent.
• Ownership of an EA Operating Model and governance framework at enterprise scale (>5,000 users, multi-region).
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least two domains such as hybrid-cloud, data platforms, integration, workplace, or security.
• Proven experience in policy-driven automation (OPA, Sentinel, Kyverno) integrated with IaC tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience leading distributed architect teams or CoEs and motivating senior practitioners.
• Stakeholder management skills at executive level; able to defend architecture ROI to CIO/CTO and board committees.
• Certifications: TOGAF or equivalent, and cloud certifications (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP advantageous).
• Experience with core-banking or investment-platform modernization (e.g., Aladdin, CRIMS, SimCorp, State Street Alpha).
• Familiarity with BIAN, BCF, or other capability frameworks.