Enterprise Architect – Banking (Relocation to Spain)
Job Description
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a strategic architecture and transformation initiative within Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB).
In this role, you will work closely with senior technology and business stakeholders to define target architectures, assess complex technology landscapes, and drive strategic decisions around applications, platforms, data, integration and modernization.
This is a hands-on architecture role. We are looking for someone who can analyse complex environments, challenge existing approaches, develop target-state options and turn architectural decisions into clear, actionable recommendations.
What will you do?
• Define decision-ready reference and target architectures for priority CIB capabilities, including capability decomposition, target building blocks, architecture principles, data and integration patterns, and transition considerations.
• Work closely with CIOs, Domain Technology Heads and senior business stakeholders, challenging existing architectures, inherited constraints, local variations and investment assumptions.
• Analyse current application and platform landscapes to identify duplication, fragmentation, obsolescence, dependencies, risks and opportunities for consolidation.
• Translate architecture decisions into clear application-level recommendations, such as adopt, consolidate, migrate, selectively invest, contain or retire, including dependencies and transition sequencing.
• Assess buy, build and reuse alternatives, evaluating market maturity, comparable CIB adoption, integration fit, vendor lock-in and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Prepare and lead architecture decision forums and domain working groups, presenting options, trade-offs, recommendations, required decisions and open dependencies.
• Assess EUCs (End User Computing) and AI-enabled local solutions within the target architecture, defining appropriate classification, controls, ownership and transition paths.
• Translate architecture decisions into fundable initiatives, contributing to preliminary business cases, expected benefits, complexity assessments, risks and investment planning.
• Collaborate with global and cross-domain teams to ensure alignment between strategic architecture and business transformation objectives.
Requirements
Department: Architecture
Function: Consulting
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level