Lead AI Solutions Architect
Up to £95,000
2 days on site (Manchester/Knutsford)
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
Accountabilities
* Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
* Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
* Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank's resiliency expectations.
* Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
* Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
* Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
* Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
To be successful as a Solution Architect, you should have experience with -
* Architecting modern distributed systems
* Stakeholder management, having strong influencing skills with ability to solve difficult problems whilst making complex architectural trade-offs
* Creating transitional architectures that leverage heritage systems
Some other highly valued skills may include:
* Functional/Domain experience in financial services Banking/Cards/Loans
* Hands-on experience in architecting systems that operate within public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
* Ability to manage technical product selection process, scope & execute Tech spikes/PoCs
Location
Knutsford, UK
Rate/Salary
95000.00 GBP Yearly
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