Technical Architect, Custody Domains

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong technical architecture experience within Custody, Securities Services, Capital Markets, or Investment Banking
• Deep knowledge of one or more custody domains, including Securities Settlements, Asset Servicing (Corporate Actions), Transaction Management, Tax Operations, or Cash & FX Processing
• Strong software engineering foundation, ideally across Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, and SQL
• Kafka experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Financial services background is highly desired

Responsibilities:

• Support the modernisation of the global Custody technology landscape
• Focus on solution design, governance, platform modernisation, and innovation across Securities Services and Custody domains

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Oracle
• SQL
• Spring
• Spring Boot

More:

We are recruiting for a global financial services organisation. This senior Technical Architect role is based in London with a hybrid arrangement requiring three days in the office. The rate is up to £800 per day, inside IR35, and the initial contract runs until November 2027. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business supplying temporary workers.

last updated 45 week of 2026