Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

NatWest Group; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading bank as a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead, where you'll drive technology strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with the bank's goals. You'll influence business strategies, manage architecture roadmaps, and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver value and innovation while ensuring security and quality.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of application architecture and at least one other architecture discipline.
• Experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, or similar fields.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate architecture for Financial Crime technology.
• Drive architecture governance and alignment with business strategy.
• Lead complex architectural transformations.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Job description

Join us as a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

• For someone with experience in defining Enterprise architecture, strategy and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business
• You'll own and drive the full end-to-end business leading technology strategy and architecture for Financial Crime including functional, platform, data, hosting with associated roadmaps
• You’ll ensure alignment with the bank’s simplification strategy and co-create architectural roadmaps via active engagements with functions and franchises
• You’ll ensure our architecture direction improves quality, accelerates delivery of value to customers and drives innovation, while keeping our services and applications safe and secure
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions to create long term value for the bank

What you'll do

As a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope. You’ll be making sure the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.

We’ll look to you strongly influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. You'll also be drivingeffective architecture governance and cadence with business colleagues to drive the continual evolution of the strategy and architecture in alignment with ourbusiness strategy.

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 models
• Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
• Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains
• 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 expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with an in-depth knowledge of the remaining disciplines. You’ll ideally have Financial Crime, Fraud or similar business, data, technology experience.

You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, with a good understanding of Agile methodologies, and experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering