Hybrid Principal Application Architect

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About the role

  • Principal Application Architect leading integration architecture for financial technology solutions and collaborating with cloud and engineering teams for system coherence.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain enterprise standards for application integrations, communication patterns, and cross‑platform design.
  • Establish and evolve reference architectures, ensuring alignment with cloud platform strategy and long‑term landscape principles.
  • Own and mature our integration capability, including patterns, tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
  • Provide architectural oversight to ensure platform solutions (Workday, Salesforce, Fabric, Atlassian, and others) align with enterprise‑level principles rather than isolated domain needs.
  • Design or guide integration solutions in collaboration with platform teams, ensuring they are maintainable, secure, and scalable.
  • Assess existing integrations to identify opportunities for simplification, risk reduction, and standardization.
  • Work closely with the Cloud Architect to align application architecture with infrastructure and cloud capabilities.
  • Collaborate with the IT leadership to ensure architectural decisions support strategic priorities.
  • Partner with platform teams, business stakeholders, and technical leads to ensure architectural alignment across initiatives.
  • Act as a mentor to engineers and platform specialists, elevating skills in integration design and architectural thinking.
  • Promote a culture of architectural excellence, fostering shared understanding and adoption of best practices.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as an Application Architect, Solution Architect, or senior engineer with architectural responsibilities
  • Strong background in application integrations across complex SaaS environments
  • Solid understanding of API design, event‑driven architecture, message queues, middleware/iPaaS tools, and common integration patterns
  • Experience aligning application architecture with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
  • Familiarity with MDM, data governance, and enterprise architecture frameworks like Well-Architecture Frameworks is a plus
  • Ability to translate architectural principles into practical guidance for engineering teams
  • Strong collaboration skills, especially when working across multiple platforms and stakeholder groups
  • Curiosity and a continuous‑improvement mindset — always seeking opportunities to raise architectural maturity and system cohesion.

Benefits

  • Attractive salary
  • Bonus scheme
  • Pension
  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid model
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Principal Application Architect

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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