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Enterprise Architect
About Us:
Market Financial Solutions (MFS) is a leading independent bridging finance provider based in the United Kingdom. With a strong presence in the market, we specialise in offering fast and flexible bridging loans and buy-to-let mortgages to our valued intermediaries and clients.
Role Purpose:
We are looking for a strategically minded and technically experienced Enterprise Architect to take ownership of the company’s overall technology architecture. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping and guiding the evolution of our digital landscape, ensuring all technology decisions align with the business’s long-term goals and operational needs.
You will be responsible for defining the architectural roadmap across platforms and systems, including Salesforce, supporting applications, Azure cloud infrastructure, and a wide range of SaaS and cloud-based solutions.
This role is key to ensuring technology is leveraged efficiently, scalably, and securely across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
Technology Strategy & Architecture Planning
• Design and maintain the enterprise architecture blueprint that aligns technology investments with business objectives
• Act as the architectural thought leader, developing and championing technology strategies that enable agility, scalability, innovation, and operational efficiency
• Define and communicate architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks across the organisation to solution design and technology decision-making
• Lead the architectural planning for new systems, applications, integrations, and infrastructure
• Identify future-state technology needs and plan for systems, integrations, and infrastructure to support business growth and transformation
• Provide architectural oversight of Salesforce and its supporting ecosystem (e.g., integrations, middleware, third-party applications)
• Support the entire Salesforce ecosystem, including supporting applications, middleware (e.g., MuleSoft), and third-party integrations, ensuring a seamless and scalable architecture
• Ensure Salesforce is integrated effectively with core systems and evolves to meet changing business requirements, enabling efficient workflows and unified data access
Cloud & Azure Expertise
• Define and lead the architectural strategy for all cloud-based platforms, with a particular focus on leveraging the full capabilities of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (e.g., Azure App Services, Azure AD, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps)
• Work with infrastructure and security teams to ensure scalability, availability, and governance of cloud environments
• Ensure that cloud environments are scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-optimsed, while supporting current and future business demands
• Establish and maintain best-practice cloud architecture frameworks, including automation, monitoring, and deployment pipelines
• Design and implement a hybrid-cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates on-premise systems, cloud services, and SaaS platforms, ensuring operational continuity and flexibility
• Promote and enforce interoperability, data integrity, and system performance across all cloud and SaaS environments, including identity management, access control, and API
integration standards
• Evaluate and recommend new Azure services and features to improve performance, reduce cost, and support innovation across business and technology functions
SaaS & Integration Landscape
• Lead the assessment, selection, and integration of SaaS platforms, ensuring all new technologies are architecturally sound, interoperable, and strategically aligned with business objectives
• Establish a clear architectural framework for SaaS adoption, including platform evaluation criteria, security reviews, and data residency considerations
• Design and maintain integration strategies and reference architectures that enable scalable, secure, and reliable data exchange between cloud, SaaS, and on-premise systems
• Champion the use of modern integration tools and platforms such as APIs, web services, MuleSoft, and iPaaS solutions, ensuring consistent standards across the organisation
• Ensure data flow, integrity, and governance across systems through scalable integration frameworks and tools (e.g., API, iPaaS, MuleSoft)
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to ensure data integrity, lineage, and consistency across all systems, while minimising redundancy and integration debt
Role Requirements:
Essential:
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a senior architecture role within a complex & growing business environment
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and its broader application landscape
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise cloud architecture patterns.
• Experience designing solutions using cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Strong capability in systems integration, data architecture, and application lifecycle management.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into strategic business discussions.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.
Desirable:
• Certifications such as TOGAF, Salesforce Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect
• Knowledge of MuleSoft or other integration platforms.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment strategies.
Why Work for us?
Next Steps:
Ready for an exciting career move? Hit ‘apply’ to express your interest, and if your CV aligns with our requirements, expect a call from one of our team soon to discuss this fantastic opportunity further.