Contract Enterprise Architect - £725 inside IR35 - London x3 dpw - 6 months
Exalto consulting are currently recruiting for a contract Principle Architect, this is paying £725 per day inside IR35, 3 days a week in London and initially 6 months.
Previous experience required for the role:
1. Proven ability to design and deliver fault-tolerant, high-availability systems at enterprise scale — spanning cloud infrastructure, APIs, front-end and back-end stacks.
2. Architecture domain breadth across at least one of: Enterprise, Solution, Data, Business, Infrastructure, Applications or Process architecture.
3. A credible engineering coach — comfortable guiding teams on refactoring approaches, deployment pipelines, security practices and design-driven development.
4. Commercially minded, with the ability to construct and defend multi-year investment cases and total cost of ownership models.
5. Demonstrable record of cutting through complexity to align senior technical and business stakeholders around a shared direction.
6. Genuine passion for emerging technologies and a track record of bringing innovative architectural thinking into practice.
7. A developer mindset alongside leadership experience — fluent in modern engineering languages and toolchains across the full stack.
8. Natural mentor who invests in team capability, psychological safety and a culture of honest, tran...