Lead Enterprise Architect

Lead Enterprise Architect - London (may be 1-2 days a week) and remote - £682 - global payments organisation! Role You will be high-calibre, technically broad Lead Enterprise Architect (EA). In this role, you will be the architectural anchor for a high-priority transformation portfolio: designing the multi-year infrastructure roadmap, driving the End-of-Life (EOL) decommissioning and re-platforming pipeline, and providing technical governance for our Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) remediation program. Combine deep infrastructure engineering with financial discipline, embedding FinOps frameworks across cloud and on-premise environments (ensure that every milestone on the strategic roadmap optimizes unit economics, eliminates waste during EOL migrations, and remains tightly aligned with corporate fiscal and security goals). Core Key Responsibilities Architect the target-state vision for a highly resilient hybrid environment, seamlessly blending on-premise data centers with multi-cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP). Build andamp; Govern the Strategic Roadmap: Design and maintain a phased, multi-year technology life cycle roadmap tracking infrastructure dependencies, technical debt, and aggressive EOL asset mitigation. Drive FinOps andamp; Cost Optimization: Establish cloud financial accountability by embedding FinOps practices into the architecture life cycle. Manage cloud spend, model TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for EOL re-platforming options, and ..... full job details .....