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# Senior Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** HSBC Group
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Services, ReactJS, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Docker, Service Stack, Legacy Systems, Microservices
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2100455F27794173A55BFBB0760471C2/job/

## About the Role

* Proficient Enterprise / solution architecture including design skills with ability to produce "fit for purpose solution designs" following best practices
 * Ability to build high-level proposals (e.g., Clear Choice) and clearly articulate pros/cons in business terms to enable sound decisions
 * Skilled in analysing requirements and translating business capability into functional components and architecture
 * Effective graphical, written and verbal communication for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
 * Experience using agile methods, understanding their limitations, and knowing how to overcome them in complex environments
 * Experience designing/implementing highly scalable, highly available cloud services (e.g., GCP/Azure)
 * Breadth across modern + legacy technology stacks such as Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, API gateways (Kong), REST, Kafka, React
 * Familiarity with large-scale transformation using analytics and AI/ML

## Description

* Build a thorough understanding of existing and target business functions, processes and assets
 * Understand how current systems/components enable those capabilities, with particular focus on problem areas
 * Partner with Business Architects to translate target capabilities into functional components and clear functional boundaries
 * Drive technical realisation of functional components, working with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to map functional components into the right UI, processing, data, and messaging designs
 * Engage vendors to assess suitability (or otherwise) of potential vendor components
 * Work with business and programme management to define implementation/adoption roadmaps that maintain service continuity and realise benefits early
 * Provide business knowledge to Solution/Technical Architecture and Engineering teams, and legacy systems knowledge to Business/Solution/Technical Architects
 * Demonstrate leadership on Regulatory & Compliance; maintain awareness of operational risk and support identification, mitigation, control and reporting


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