Solution Architect

Solution Architect

We require an experienced and dynamic Solution Architect to join our large financial services clients growing team, to help mature the capability and support the ambitious technology transformation roadmap.

This role will report into the Head Enterprise Architecture who heads up a team including Enterprise, Solution and Business Architects, to guide and manage changes to the existing technology environment, and help develop and maintain technology target-states and roadmaps, and implementing strategy.

Functional responsibilities and experience needed

• Experience providing detailed input to feasibility studies and projects in the design stages, to help shape high quality solutions across multiple architectural domains
• Create and maintain high quality solution architecture designs and documentation to support the various stages of architectural and investment approval
• Working closely with colleagues within both the UK and EU, to ensure alignment with technology strategies and roadmaps
• Building and maintaining the technology landscape relevant to the UK and helping mature the baseline architecture collateral
• Helping define and drive future-state technology strategies and roadmaps
• Helping enable and promote increased technology autonomy within the bank
• Driving solution design discussions with senior business stakeholders
• Working with technical developers to ensure solution designs meet requirements and industry design methodologies are aligned to best practice
• Presenting architecture documents to the UK architecture governance forum
• Staying up to date with advances, opportunities and best-practices
• Working with the team to continually enhance and mature the architectural and governance processes