Job Description

Join us as a Solution Architect

We'll look to you to lead the solution architecture definition for your assigned change programme, in addition to delivering business outcomes for both customers and colleagues You'll be driving technology innovation by identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their potential impact on the bank If you're ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you're looking for We're offering this role at vice president level for twelve months for a fixed term contract

What you'll do

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As a Solution Architect, you'll be architecting customer centric, high performance, secure and robust end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank's strategic target architecture.


You'll be actively contributing to the growth of architecting capability and the community across the bank by sharing knowledge including best practices, proven solutions and key learnings, contributing to the community of practice, and building capability in others through coaching, mentoring and teaching.


As well as this, you'll be:

Supporting the realisation of the Enterprise and Solution Architecture, working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle Providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices Proactively influencing stakeholders to embed the reuse of digital capabilities, contributing to simplification and the realisation of the bank's strategic target architecture Partnering and engaging with programme stakeholders and following the bank's data driven architecture method and framework to define and evolve the minimum viable solution architectures that deliver the programme objectives and business value Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines Undertaking design reviews of delivery programmes of high architectural significance or high architectural risk

The skills you'll need

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To take on this role, you'll need extensive knowledge of solution architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.


You'll bring experience of defining and developing strategic solution architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.


You'll also demonstrate experience of:

Collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction Creating business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives Overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance Participating in architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards * Proven people capability development, including mentoring, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices