Solution Architect, VP

Responsibilities

• As a Solution Architect, you'll be architecting customer centric, high performance, secure and robust end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank's strategic target architectures and roadmaps.
• You'll be supporting the growth of architecting capability, contributing to the development of architecture skills across the team by sharing knowledge, best practices, lessons learned, and mentoring others.
• As well as this, you'll be:
• Proven Solution Architect with enterprise experience and strong expertise in cloud platforms, microservices/API-led architectures, and integration patterns with middleware
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, microservices and API-led architectures, and integration patterns with middleware
• Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms
• Knowledge of Property / Facilities / Workplace technology ecosystems
• Adopting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• The skills you'll need
• To take on this role, you'll need practitioner knowledge of solution architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.
• You'll bring practitioner experience of defining and developing strategic solution architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• You'll also demonstrate experience of:
• Collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction
• Creating business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives
• Participating in overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance
• Supporting architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards
• People capability development, including mentoring, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices
• Hours
• 45
• Job Posting Closing Date:
• 30/06/2026

Additional Information

Join us as a Solution Architect We'll look to you to create the solution architecture definition for your assigned change projects, in addition to supporting the delivery of business outcomes that benefit both customers and colleagues You'll be working closely with stakeholders to contribute to the design and implementation of digital solutions, validating alignment with the bank's strategic target architecture and roadmap If you're ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you're looking for We're offering this role at vice president level

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