Solution Architect

NatWest Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in the UK seeks a skilled Solution Architect to define high-level technical architecture while collaborating with various platform and domain teams. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of application architecture, particularly with Avaloq solutions, and be responsible for producing end-to-end designs that enhance customer value. Strong communication and problem-solving abilities are essential for this role, along with a degree in computer science or engineering.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of application architecture.
• Extensive hands-on technical expertise in Avaloq.
• Experience with Avaloq trading modules and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Influence collaboration across platform and domain teams.
• Define end-to-end solution designs.
• Design and manage end-to-end architecture of capabilities.

Skills

Application architecture

Business data architecture

Infrastructure architecture

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Avaloq

RESTful APIs

Microservice frameworks

Job description

Join us as a Solution Architect

• This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define the high level technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
• You’ll define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
• Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank

What you'll do

We'll look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you'll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.

You'll also provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value.

On top of this, you'll be:

• Responsible for designing, documenting and managing the end-to-end architecture of capabilities that adopt Avaloq based solutions
• Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
• Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture
• Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
• Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends

The skills you'll need

As a Solution Architect, you'll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, and in business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You'll also need a degree in computer science or engineering and knowledge in solution design

On top of this, you'll bring:

• Extensive hands-on technical expertise in Avaloq or another Core Banking Platform, software design and development, including programming best practices related to scalability, availability and performance
• Experience in areas such as Avaloq trading modules, static data and Avaloq Messaging Interface, integration patterns, security, RESTful APIs and microservice frameworks
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, ready to work in a challenging business environment
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues
• Good understanding of APIs, how to design and implement them
• Experience of working on a transformational change programme with an Asset or Wealth Manager