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# Senior Enterprise Architect -Contract - Inside IR35 - 12 month Contracts

- **Company:** Hamilton Barnes
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £156,000.0 - £162,500.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Google Cloud, Machine Learning Operations, Virtual Agents, Data Delivery, Microservices
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-00184A567C227A3283/

## About the Role

* Strong across architecture disciplines, with 'Architecture as Code' and composability experience
 * Cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, GCP), microservices, API-led/event-driven integration
 * AI/Agentic AI exposure - domain depth varies by team (LLMOps/Gen AI, ML, or automation-focused)
 * Strong stakeholder engagement, internal and external

## Description

We're recruiting 6x Senior Enterprise Architects for a leading financial client, working across Tech Strategy & Innovation, Data & AI, Consumer (Home Lending), and Commercial Banking CS&E. You'll shape end-to-end architectures, produce roadmaps and design artefacts, and work closely with delivery, platform, and engineering teams to keep architecture coherent while enabling pragmatic delivery., * Produce high-level, north-star and emerging technology architecture roadmaps

 * Provide architectural guidance on strategy, principles, standards and guardrails
 * Drive scope, requirements and design roadmaps Embedded within the programme
 * Own delivery of designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns


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