Solution Architect covering a breadth of Infra, Apps and Data
As a Solution Architect, you’ll be responsible for owning and detailing the solution architecture within a feature team or initiative, ensuring it meets business requirements and aligns with strategic goals. You’ll drive quality in design and build processes, document standard approaches for repeatable components, and lead the solution architecture efforts. You’ll engage with stakeholders to document requirements, obtain cost estimates, and ensure clarity and approval of the solution architecture. The Solution Architect supports the engineering team, manages significant change requests, and conducts postmortems to gather feedback and best practices. You’ll also participate in feature team activities to maintain alignment with the strategic architecture principles.
What You’ll Bring
* Previous experience of working in a Scaled Agile environment.
* Expertise in one or financial services Domain area.
* Consulting experience with presentation skills preferred.
* Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. AWS, Azure.
* Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect) are a plus.
* Familiarity with distributed databases (SQL and NoSQL) and messaging products such as Kafka.
* Experience in Infrastructure Resilience.
* Familiar with ArchiMate and EA repository use.
* Understanding of TOGAF and BIAN frameworks.
* Must have financial services/banking solutions implementation experience
* Familiar with UK Banking and its related vendor community.
* Experienced in Agile ways of working.
Preferable experience specialism
* Experience across a breadth of projects (Cloud, Data, Apps, Infra domains)
* Creation of HLDs
* Can communicate across mutiple levels of stakeholders
* Report into the head of technical architecture for a UK bank
* The projects they will be spread across would cover;
* Delivery of an operational data layer for the bank (MongoDB, Confluent Kafka, Precisely CDC)
* Various Infrastructure Upgrades (Citrix, SAS, etc)
* Cloud Platform Landing Zone Design on AWS
Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics
* 5+ years' of relevant experience
* Advanced knowledge of leading architecture solutions in the industry area
* Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
* Ability to demonstrate technical concepts to non-technical audiences