Join us as an Enterprise Architect
- This is an opportunity for a mid-level experienced architect to help us define the technical architecture and design solutions that deliver strong business outcomes and align with our longer-term strategy within the Bereavement and Financial Health & Support customer journeys
- You'll be defining the architectural outcomes for your assigned scope making sure that the architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long-term strategy
- With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank
What you'll do
As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope. You’ll be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.
We’ll also look to you to analyse the business strategy and the wider business environment to identify the capabilities that the architecture must provide and support over the long term, translating these into architecture outcomes.
As well as this, you’ll be:
- Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
- Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher-level model
- Collaborating with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
- Gaining agreement and buy-in with key stakeholders, including relevant business owners and product managers
- Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a practitioner of application architecture, with a basic understanding of the remaining disciplines such as business, data and infrastructure architecture. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability clearly communicate and present complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level.You'll also have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
- The ability to shape strategic direction by incorporating industry and innovation insights, as well as supporting solution designs that underpin the strategy
- An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
- Experience of working with third party Software As A Service (SAAS) vendors
- A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches
- Knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering
