Solution Architect Edinburgh

NatWest Group

Solution Architect – Edinburgh

Key Responsibilities

  • Define high-level technical architecture and design for assigned scope to deliver business outcomes and meet long-term strategy.
  • Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision for end-to-end designs, potentially spanning multiple platforms and domains.
  • Influence and promote collaboration across platform and domain teams on solution delivery.
  • Elaborate solutions and interfaces, validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and create continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Analyze options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant building blocks and designs for frequent incremental delivery of customer value.
  • Own technical design issues and drive resolution through iteration of the technical solution design.
  • Participate in shaping requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change aligned with target architecture.
  • Promote adaptive design practices to drive feature team collaboration around a common technical vision using continuous feedback.
  • Make recommendations of 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 (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate).
  • Understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience in Agile teams.
  • Experience defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions across all technical architecture layers.
  • Experience delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain.
  • Experience with systems development change lifecycles, best practices, and proven experience designing solutions on public cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
  • Knowledge of hardware, software, applications, systems engineering, cloud, event streaming, microservices, and APIs.
  • Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership.

To apply for this job please visit jobs.natwestgroup.com.

Posting date:
08 January 2025
Hours:
Full time
Closing date:
07 February 2025
Location:
Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ
Company:
NatWest Group
Job type:
Permanent
Job reference:
R-00245182