Job Description

Join us as a Solution Architect

• This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define the high level technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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

What you\'ll do

We\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you\xe2\x80\x99ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll also 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.

On top of this, you\xe2\x80\x99ll 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

As a Solution Architect, you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, domain business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams, along with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues.

On top of this, you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring:

• Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions, working across all layers of the technical architecture, end to end also including operational run considerations
• Proven experience in day to day working across large delivery teams and key stakeholders across Business and Technology
• 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

Hours 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 06/10/2023

NatWest Group