Essential Skills Solution Architecture and Design Significant experience as a Solution Architect, ideally within complex financial services environments Domain knowledge in o Retail Banking products e.g. - Unsecured loans Personal Accounts banking & savings and Bonds (fixed term deposits) o Business Segmentation Retail, business banking, private o Onboarding processes for Personal account o Core Banking products (customers, accounts, pricing, transactions, etc) and related services essential to the operations of a bank Domain driven design, with working knowledge of the BIAN framework, TOGAF, ArchiMate Proven experience in defining & documenting As-Is & Target Architecture, working with stakeholders to help define & deliver strategic objectives & roadmaps, being embedded into the functional domain, balancing business requirements with functional & technical Strategy Experience Defining and evolving RESTful APIs following best practices for scalability, versioning and documentation Experience with event-driven architectures Ability to produce clear functional architecture, design logical components and define interactions between systems, whilst delivering decommissioning and archival initiatives Experience balancing business outcomes with long term architecture strategies Experience in working with engineering teams to align technical designs with the published architecture. Peer review designs produced by other team members, ensuring architectural integrity and compliance with standards. Experience in creating practical, workable architectures that can be aligned to IT principles/standards, whilst following the banks architecture governance processes.