NatWest Group
Solution Architect – Greater Manchester
Key Responsibilities
- Defining high-level technical architecture and design for assigned scope, delivering business outcomes aligned with longer-term strategy.
- Defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for end-to-end designs, potentially spanning multiple platforms and domains.
- Influencing and promoting collaboration across platform and domain teams on solution delivery.
- Elaborating solutions and their interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating continuous delivery pipelines.
- Providing analysis of options and delivering end-to-end solution designs using relevant building blocks.
- Producing designs for features enabling frequent incremental delivery of customer value.
- Owning technical design issues, driving resolution through iterative technical solution design.
- Participating in activities shaping requirements, validating designs and prototypes for change alignment with the target architecture.
- Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback.
- Recommending potential impacts to existing and prospective customers regarding latest technology and customer trends.
Skills and Expertise
- Expert knowledge of application architecture and business data or infrastructure architecture.
- Working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate.
- Understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies, with experience in Agile teams.
- Experience defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions across all layers of the technical architecture.
- Background in delivering solutions securely spanning a complex infrastructure domain.
- Experience with systems development change lifecycles, best practices, and designing solutions on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Knowledge of hardware, software, applications, systems engineering, cloud, event streaming, microservices, and APIs.
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to peers and leadership.