About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of June 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.
Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level:4

Department: Technology

Location: London I Southampton

Contract type: Permanent

Quilter is establishing a new Integration Platform - a governed API and integration layer that decouples our digital, adviser and third-party consumers from our core platforms and gives us direct control over how our systems connect.

As Lead Integration Platform Architect, you will be the senior technical authority for this platform: shaping its target architecture, embedding the standards and patterns to run it at scale, and growing it into a lasting in-house capability. This is a foundational, high-visibility role at the centre of Quilter's technology strategy.

As Lead Integration Platform Architect, you will be accountable for the strategy, architecture and ongoing development of Quilter's integration capabilities.

You will define the standards, principles and target architecture that enable applications, platforms and services to connect securely, reliably and efficiently. Through strong architectural leadership, you will help simplify the technology landscape, improve how systems work together, reduce delivery complexity and support the successful delivery of Technology's strategic priorities.

You will take a broad view of the technology estate, understanding how systems, services and teams interact to ensure architectural decisions deliver the best overall outcome for the organisation. You will also drive reusable integration capabilities that improve delivery speed, increase consistency and create long-term business value.

As the senior authority for integration architecture, you will provide governance, assurance and technical leadership across programmes, products, platforms and services, helping shape Quilter's future technology landscape.

Key Accountabilities:

• Own the integration architecture strategy, roadmap and target state.

• Define and maintain architecture principles, standards and patterns for APIs, messaging, events and enterprise integration.

• Lead the evolution of integration platforms and capabilities in line with business and technology priorities.

• Ensure systems, platforms and services can connect securely, reliably and effectively.

• Design scalable, resilient and reusable integration solutions.

• Identify opportunities to simplify technology, reduce duplication and improve efficiency.

• Take an end-to-end view of the technology landscape, understanding dependencies, risks and opportunities.

• Ensure architectural decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long-term technology goals.

• Promote reusable platforms and services that improve delivery speed, consistency and user experience.

• Provide architectural governance and assurance for integration-related change.

• Review and approve solution designs against agreed standards and target architectures.

• Manage architectural risks, technical debt and platform dependencies.

• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to architects and engineers.

• Demonstrate curiosity by exploring emerging technologies, industry trends and new ways of working.

• Challenge existing approaches and identify opportunities to simplify, improve and modernise the technology landscape.

• Encourage experimentation and the adoption of new capabilities where they can improve business outcomes, delivery effectiveness or operational resilience.

• Drive continuous improvement in integration capabilities to meet changing business and technology needs.

• Communicate architectural direction, priorities and decisions to senior technology and business stakeholders.

• Define and own API and integration standards and governance - design standards, versioning strategy, OpenAPI contracts and discoverable API catalogues.

• Architect both synchronous and asynchronous event-driven integration patterns across the estate.

• Lead architecture for secure connectivity across a cloud estate (Azure-primarily)

• Partner with strategic third parties on API design and the co-design of platform capabilities.

• Work with the API Product Owner to align architecture with a prioritised delivery backlog and route-to-live.

About You

You will be an experienced architect with strong expertise in integration technologies, APIs, messaging and platform architecture. You will be comfortable setting strategic direction while working closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are practical, scalable and aligned to business needs.

You will be able to understand complex technology environments and make decisions that balance business outcomes, delivery priorities, risk and long-term sustainability. You will be recognised for your technical credibility, sound judgement and ability to simplify complex challenges.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:Significant experience in Integrat