Join us as a Data Platforms Solution Architect This is an opportunity to help us define the technical architecture and design for data processing, transformation, and output systems, providing solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meet our longer term strategy You’ll define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank This role comes with flexi-working, so you can start and end work when you want, as long as you work your weekly hours within core times, and you’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend at least one day a week working from our London or Bristol office What you'll do We’ll look to you to influence and promote collaboration across platform and domain teams on solution delivery. You’ll provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline. On top of this, you’ll be: Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends The skills you'll need You’ll bring expert knowledge of application architecture as well as business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You’ll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams. Familiarity with the Avaloq Banking Suite and experience managing projects involving Avaloq implementations, upgrades, or integrations would be highly advantageous. An awareness of banking industry data and regulatory requirements would also be beneficial. On top of this, you’ll bring: Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of technical architecture Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration abilities, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices, and approaches Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering An analytical mind-set