Investment Solutions Architect (Wealth Management)

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in investment management, wealth management, private banking, or front-office technology environments
• Proven experience in a Solution Architect, Investment Architect, Business Architect, or similar architecture-focused role
• Strong understanding of front-office investment processes, operating models, portfolio management, advisory services, and wealth management technology
• Hands-on experience with one or more leading investment and wealth management platforms, such as Avaloq, Aladdin, Charles River, or SimCorp
• Proven experience integrating multiple systems, platforms, interfaces, and data sources into cohesive business solutions
• Experience delivering solutions across the full project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and business adoption
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior business and technology stakeholders
• Ability to bridge business requirements and technical solution design
• Experience producing architecture documentation, solution blueprints, design artefacts, and governance materials

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand investment management objectives and translate them into effective technology solutions
• Design and document end-to-end architectural solutions aligned with business strategy, target architecture, and technology standards
• Work with Domain Architects, Technical Architects, Business Analysts, and Engineering teams to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and fit for purpose
• Lead architectural thinking across front-office investment initiatives, platform enhancements, and transformation programmes
• Produce architecture artefacts, solution designs, roadmaps, and governance documentation
• Ensure seamless integration across investment platforms, business applications, interfaces, and data flows
• Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions while maintaining architectural integrity and governance standards
• Present solution designs and architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and roadblocks, and drive their resolution throughout the project lifecycle
• Challenge existing approaches and introduce innovative solutions to simplify processes, reduce delivery timelines, and improve business outcomes
• Advise stakeholders and help shape strategic thinking and future-state investment technology capabilities

Technologies:

• Architect
• Avaloq

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We are AMS, a global workforce solutions partner focused on creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. Through our Contingent Workforce Solutions service, we work as an extension of clients recruitment teams to connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals. Our client is a major UK retail bank serving more than 17 million retail customers, with expertise across Business Services, Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail Banking, and Investment Banking. We are recruiting an Investment Solutions Architect for a 12-month contract based in London, with two days per week in the office and remote work available as part of a hybrid arrangement. The client accepts workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

last updated 44 week of 2026