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Present Vault architecture to senior stakeholders, design end‑to‑end core banking replacement solutions, and create client‑facing collateral and training on the Vault platform.
Deep experience designing enterprise architectures for large financial institutions, strong cloud and architectural pattern knowledge, and excellent client‑facing communication skills.
The role enables banks to modernise legacy core and payments systems, directly supporting Thought Machine’s mission to replace outdated banking technology at scale.
Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.
We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026.
Architects within the Expert Services team at Thought Machine play a crucial role in enabling clients to successfully modernise their core banking and payments systems using the Vault platform. This involves working across pre-sales and delivery engagements to provide expert advice on deployment, configuration, integration, and migration. The Architect will consult on the successful execution of end-to-end core replacement programmes. They are expected to have deep knowledge of the Vault product suite and future roadmap, both in terms of functionality offered, the non-functional requirements it has been designed to meet and the choices and constraints that have informed that architecture.
Some experience of large-scale migration programmes, particularly core banking migrations.
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
