Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £90,000.
Architecture across 8 teams and roughly 80 engineers at a global trading broker, while still writing production code. That combination is the point. Owns payment systems, real-time trading data infrastructure and low-latency high-throughput services, plus company-wide security posture, reliability and cloud cost. C# and .NET on Azure, event sourcing and CQRS, Kubernetes and Terraform, with Datadog and OpenTelemetry for observability. Writes the RFCs and architecture decision records and runs incident leadership and post-mortems.
Looking forResignation already in and on garden leave until mid-October. Rotated through all 8 teams and the work stopped being interesting, which is the honest reason. Wants a technically engaging senior individual contributor role, mostly remote, with a visible route to senior or lead.
How they came acrossQuoted their own rule for good work, that it comes when you're interested and having fun, and said that feeling had gone. Wants colleagues who will argue a point properly, and is approaching the search in a measured way given the runway.
C#, .NET, ASP.NET, TypeScript, React · Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform · Event sourcing, CQRS, Service Bus, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Redis
Cofounder and software engineering roles at two small businesses, then four and a half years at a global trading broker rising to lead architect. 3 employers, average stint 2 years 6 months, with a longest of 7 years 2 months.
Needs to work part of the year from Spain and won't take heavy on-site requirements or a rigid monthly office rule. The asking figure also looks low for the remit, so expect competition.
Degree in physics from a Russell Group university.
Data and AI platform architecture on Databricks and Snowflake, built rather than drawn. They are on a merchant bank remediation programme for a global IT services firm, designing lakehouse architecture and agentic AI applications with LangGraph, Azure AI Foundry, Snowflake Cortex and vector search. Python, Spark and SQL underneath, PyTorch and MLflow for the ML side. They came up through QA and DevOps, so the delivery discipline is there.
Looking forLittle work in the pipeline where they are and the pay has not moved. They are on £55,000 and targeting £85,000 to £90,000, and they need their sponsorship transferred off a global mobility visa tied to their employer.
How they came acrossUnderstood the technical detail of the roles we discussed properly rather than nodding along. Works release weekends without making a point of it.
Python, Spark, SQL · Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake · Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph, RAG, MLflow · AWS Glue, Docker
9 employers over 12 years, starting in test automation and DevOps at IT services and consulting firms before moving into data and AI architecture. Average tenure 1 year 5 months, longest stint 2 years 11 months.
Needs sponsorship transferred from a global mobility visa held by their current employer, and the jump from £55,000 to £87,500 is a big one to underwrite in one move.
Masters in information technology. Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Engineer, Databricks Data Engineer Professional and SnowPro Core certified.
Twenty years of Java and Node behind microservice platforms, most recently as senior architect at a Gulf retail bank where the brief was cloud-native platform design plus AI systems. RAG pipelines on a Redis vector database with Llama and Qwen models and Microsoft speech to text, running on EKS, Lambda, API Gateway and Kafka. Head of technology at a price comparison business before that, and architecture at a used-car marketplace and a daily deals site.
Looking forRecently relocated to the UK and looking now. Wants a hands-on principal or senior architecture seat where the commercial conversation is part of the job, ideally fintech, banking or another regulated environment.
How they came acrossTaught at a coding bootcamp part-time alongside the architecture work, which says something about how close to the tools they want to stay. Our notes are light on a personal read beyond that.
Java, Spring Boot, Node.js · React, React Native · AWS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock · Kafka, Redis
10 employers over 21 years, mostly Middle East technology businesses across daily deals, used car sales, price comparison and banking, and now a venture of their own. Average tenure 2 years 10 months, longest stint 5 years.
Asking £70,000 after 21 years and a senior bank architecture role, which is worth probing before you build an offer on it. Available immediately.
Bachelors in commerce. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, professional and associate.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank