Solution Architect

Charing Cross
2 weeks ago
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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’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

You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend at least one day a week working from our London office

What you'll do

We’ll 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’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.

You’ll 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’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

As a Solution Architect, you’ll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, and in 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.

You’ll also need experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches, knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering, along with the  ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues

On top of this, you’ll bring:

Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture

A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain

Experience in solution designing covering areas such as integration patterns, security, data architecture, domain driven design

Experience working with RESTful APIs, microservice frameworks, message queues, cloud technologies and migration strategies

Analytical mind, excellent communication and problem solving skills, ready to work in a challenging business environment

Avaloq experience

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