Solution Architect - Intelligent Automation

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E

Job Description:

End Date: TBC

Wednesday

Agile Working Options:

Hybrid Working

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

LOCATION: London or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London or Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity

In Intelligent Automation we’re on an exciting journey to automate the routine whilst supercharging our understanding of customers . We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone - including you.

This exciting opportunity is within our Intelligent Process Automation lab for a Solution Architect. As a Solution Architect you have responsibility for the following

• You’ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.

• You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges.

• You’ll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.
   

An ideal solution architect will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for dynamic and adaptable individual able to use and learn new skills. You’ll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively – demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

What you’ll do 

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for your lab

• Be responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes

• Manage the IT Roadmap, driving best practice initiatives

• Ensure IT compliance and governance policies are met

• Partner with fellow solution architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.

• Provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.

• Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.

• Capture technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.

What you’ll need

• Prior experience in a solution architecture position, strong experience of solution design, security and resilience patterns

• Strong knowledge of microservices, containerisation, cloud native and event-driven design concepts.

• Good knowledge of infrastructure and security architecture practices and concerns

• Have played an active part in architecture and design governance

• Experience of API Gateways & Management Platforms such as IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Manager, or similar

• Cloud Platform as a Service or similar offerings – preferably GCP.

• Appreciates Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Software patterns or similar.

It would be great if you also had

• Experience in the banking and finance industry.

• Experience with Process Automation

• Preferable experience with Python and Big Data technologies including ML

• Exposure to open-source technologies and frameworks

• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices

• Knowledge of AI

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.