Solution Architect

NatWest Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Solution Architect to define and communicate technical architectures while promoting collaboration across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate will have expertise in application architecture, hands-on experience with Java and Springboot, and a solid understanding of Agile methodologies. This role offers the opportunity to advance your career and work in a dynamic environment focused on delivering business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of application architecture and business data or infrastructure architecture.
• Understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with Java and Springboot.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate technical vision and design.
• Promote collaboration across platform and domain teams.
• Deliver end-to-end solution designs and validate options.

Skills

Java and Springboot

Front End design with Angular

Mobile development using SWIFT/KOTLIN

Application architecture

Agile methodologies

Communication of technical concepts

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:

• 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 an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.

On top of this, you’ll bring:

• Hands on experience on Java and Springboot with Front End design with Angular
• Experience on Mobile development using SWIFT/KOTLIN and understanding of Mobile Application architecture
• Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture
• A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues