Senior T24 Architect 6 Months Contract

We are seeking an experienced Senior T24 Architect to shape the evolution of a large and complex Core Banking environment. The role will provide architectural leadership across the Temenos T24/Transact landscape, ensuring that business capabilities, technology platforms, and long-term strategic objectives remain aligned.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, enterprise and solution architects, and external technology partners across multiple markets and delivery streams.

The role is focused on maintaining the stability, resilience, security, and scalability of business-critical banking services, while driving platform modernisation, simplification, standardisation, and sustainable technology evolution.

• Define and evolve the architecture roadmap for Temenos T24/Transact and associated Core Banking capabilities, establishing target-state architecture, principles, standards, and technology direction.
• Provide end-to-end architectural leadership across complex transformation, modernisation, migration, and delivery initiatives.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, and implementable architectural solutions.
• Design and oversee integrations between Core Banking and surrounding platforms, including payments, digital channels, lending, deposits, customer management, and data platforms.
• Analyse and document interfaces, data flows, system dependencies, and integration points across applications, infrastructure, and external services.
• Evaluate architectural options and clearly communicate trade-offs between business value, technical complexity, delivery risk, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Drive the modernisation and simplification of the Core Banking ecosystem, promoting API-first, event-driven, cloud-enabled, and other appropriate modern architecture patterns.
• Improve platform maintainability, testability, operability, resilience, and scalability, identifying opportunities for reuse, automation, and standardisation across markets and delivery teams.
• Define and validate functional and non-functional requirements, including availability, security, performance, scalability, resilience, recoverability, and operational supportability.
• Lead and contribute to architecture reviews and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, obsolescence, and lifecycle concerns, defining proportionate remediation strategies.
• Maintain the architectural runway required to support sustainable delivery and future platform evolution.
• Act as a trusted architectural advisor for strategic Core Banking initiatives, technology investments, and major design decisions.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
• Mentor architects and engineers, encouraging collaboration, knowledge sharing, and accountable technical decision-making.

Required Skills & Experience

• Significant experience working with Temenos T24 / Temenos Transact in architecture, solution design, technical leadership, or senior engineering roles.
• Deep understanding of Core Banking processes, Temenos platform capabilities, and integration dependencies.
• Proven experience leading architecture for large-scale banking transformation, migration, modernisation, or platform rationalisation programmes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience working across multiple teams, products, delivery streams, or geographical markets within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, scalability, security, resilience, disaster recovery, and operability.
• Proven ability to assess architectural options, manage technical risk, and make pragmatic design decisions.
• Experience working within enterprise architecture governance and technology standards.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience within banking or financial services, particularly environments with demanding availability, security, resilience, and regulatory requirements.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Temenos integration frameworks and surrounding banking platforms.
• Knowledge of payments, lending, deposits, customer management, digital banking, or financial data platforms.
• Experience with cloud adoption and modernisation of Core Banking platforms.
• Familiarity with API management, event streaming, microservices, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Experience with technical debt reduction, platform simplification, and application rationalisation.