Senior T24 Architect 6 Months Contract

We are seeking an experiencedSenior T24 Architect to shape the evolution of a large and complexCore 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 withbusiness stakeholders, engineering teams, enterprise and solution architects, and external technology partners across multiple markets and delivery streams.

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

• Define and evolve thearchitecture roadmap for Temenos T24/Transact and associated Core Banking capabilities, establishing target-state architecture, principles, standards, and technology direction.
• Provideend-to-end architectural leadership across complex transformation, modernisation, migration, and delivery initiatives.
• Translate business and functional requirements intorobust, scalable, and implementable architectural solutions.
• Design and oversee integrations between Core Banking and surrounding platforms, includingpayments, digital channels, lending, deposits, customer management, and data platforms.
• Analyse and documentinterfaces, data flows, system dependencies, and integration points across applications, infrastructure, and external services.
• Evaluate architectural options and clearly communicate trade-offs betweenbusiness value, technical complexity, delivery risk, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Drive themodernisation and simplification of the Core Banking ecosystem, promoting API-first, event-driven, cloud-enabled, and other appropriate modern architecture patterns.
• Improve platformmaintainability, testability, operability, resilience, and scalability, identifying opportunities for reuse, automation, and standardisation across markets and delivery teams.
• Define and validatefunctional and non-functional requirements, including availability, security, performance, scalability, resilience, recoverability, and operational supportability.
• Lead and contribute toarchitecture reviews and governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Identify and managearchitectural 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 atrusted architectural advisor for strategic Core Banking initiatives, technology investments, and major design decisions.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to bothtechnical 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 withTemenos T24 / Temenos Transact in architecture, solution design, technical leadership, or senior engineering roles.
• Deep understanding ofCore Banking processes, Temenos platform capabilities, and integration dependencies.
• Proven experience leading architecture forlarge-scale banking transformation, migration, modernisation, or platform rationalisation programmes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience working acrossmultiple teams, products, delivery streams, or geographical markets within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding ofnon-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 withinenterprise architecture governance and technology standards.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience withinbanking or financial services, particularly environments with demanding availability, security, resilience, and regulatory requirements.

Desirable Experience

• Experience withTemenos integration frameworks and surrounding banking platforms.
• Knowledge ofpayments, lending, deposits, customer management, digital banking, or financial data platforms.
• Experience withcloud adoption and modernisation of Core Banking platforms.
• Familiarity withAPI management, event streaming, microservices, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Experience withtechnical debt reduction, platform simplification, and application rationalisation.