Senior Developer
Project description
You'll be joining a small team run from London with support from Pune. Our role is to provide IB technology teams with oversight, support, analysis, and solutions to implement strategic architecture. Your role The CTO Architect role sits within the IB CTO Architecture function and provides support across our Governance Crew, wider IB Streams, and interacts with the Group CTO. The role helps ensure the Investment Bank (IB) is aligned with both IB and group‑level architectural direction.
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, evolve, and communicate architectural standards, guardrails, reference architectures and best practices, aligned with both IB and GCTO strategy
- Own and run key architectural governance processes within the IB CTO function, ensuring proactive architectural control across the division.
- GCTO point of contact for the Investment Bank, representing IB CTO in group-led initiatives and ensuring clear, relevant communication flows
- Triage incoming IB and GCTO work, determine impact, and coordinate responses, shielding the core architecture team by absorbing operational, data-gathering, and coordination tasks.
- Support IB engineering teams with early engagement on new initiatives, ensuring architectural considerations are addressed from ideation to delivery You are:
- Comfortable working independently to create direction, as well as in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Focused on quality and are a quick-learner
- Not afraid to tear up the rulebook and start again
- An independent thinker who looks for a more efficient means to achieve goals
- Fluent in English
SKILLS
Must have
- Strong background in enterprise/solution architecture, spanning business, application, data, and technology domains.
- Experience operating in a governance‑heavy, multi‑stakeholder environment where transparency and process are critical.
- Ability to interpret, communicate, and apply Group‑level architectural strategies into divisional contexts.
- Capable of working autonomously, creating clarity and structure where none exists.
- Strong communication and influencing skills across technology and business stakeholders.
- Experience in the financial domain.
Nice to have
• Certifications like cloud certifications, architecture certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, TOGAF). • Experience working in geographically distributed teams
