Primary Responsibilities
· Define and document technical solutions spanning multiple applications / products and technologies, aligned to the bank’s strategic architecture principles
· Lead the liaison with business clients and wider business teams in helping to shape initial ideas into requirements that are sufficiently comprehensive to support effective system development.
· Support design and integration activity throughout the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
· Drive collaboration across the component design and build teams, ensuring that they understand and follow the defined design.
· Ensure that the technical integrity and quality of the applications and alignment to architecture strategy are maintained throughout delivery.
Essential (must-have) skills and experience
· Expert in architecting solutions across disparate technologies to achieve the complex business objectives of multiple business areas.
· Broad experience of technologies – Java front-end and back-end, AWS cloud, API, DevOps pipelines.
· A proven track record of thriving in an unstructured, ambiguous environment; adept at varying own styles to influence the optimum outcome.
· Experience of directly managing a diverse set of stakeholders – technical, business and project - and influencing their conflicting objectives to deliver a pragmatic solution.
· Financial services business and applications knowledge.
· The ability to present complex technical ideas (both written and verbal), anticipate potential objections and persuade others to adopt the most appropriate view.
Preferred skills and experience
· Banking (retail) experience is preferred
· Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.
· Exposure to API design strategies both for internal and external customer usage
· Exposure to Cloud technologies. AWS Solution Architect certification – foundation level or higher
· Experience of working with service management teams or an understanding of ITIL principles.
· Application/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect training and certification, e.g. TOGAF.
· Any experience with data architecture, data migration would be beneficial.