Solution Architect, VP

Join us as a Solution Architect

• Take on a varied role, where you'll own the end-to-end high-level business design for a project, programme or initiative
• You'll be working with a range of stakeholders to identify investment priorities, define opportunities and shape journeys to meet our strategic goals
• This is a chance to shape the future of our business and gain great exposure across the bank in the process
• We're offering this role at vice president level
  
  

What you'll do

As a Solution Designer, you'll engage with relevant stakeholders as a single point of contact for design aspects. You'll be representing the design function at governance forums and working with enterprise architects to make sure standards and principles are adhered to. You'll also analyse requirements into coherent end-to-end designs, taking the business architecture into account.

Other Duties Include

• Translating requirements into a series of transition state designs and an executable roadmap
• Delivering cost-effective designs for the business and aligning solutions with the corresponding business or IT architecture
• Documenting the relevant design in accordance with standard methods
• Making sure the solution design is aligned to the portfolio or enterprise architecture target state
  
  

The skills you'll need

You'll already have a background in solution design and experience of using industry standard models and tools. Alongside good communication skills, you'll also need the ability to lead and collaborate with both internal and external teams.

We'll Also Want To See

• Lead the end-to-end design of AI, data, cloud and technology solutions, translating business requirements into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps and making sure designs are secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective
• Create and maintain high-quality architectural deliverables, including solution designs, architecture decision records (ADRs), transition-state architectures, reusable design patterns and reference architectures
• Partner with business, engineering and enterprise architecture teams to evaluate solution options, drive architectural alignment and ensure designs are practical, implementable and aligned to strategic objective