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Job Title


Solution Architect


Company : NatWest


Location : Manchester, MAN


Created : 2025-01-09


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Join us as a Solution ArchitectThis 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 strategyYoull define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domainsTake on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bankWhat you'll doWell look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, youll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.Youll 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, youll be:Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution designParticipating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecturePromoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedbackMaking recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trendsThe skills you'll needAs a Solution Architect, youll 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. Youll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.On top of this, youll bring:Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architectureA background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domainExperience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and proven experience of designing solutions on public cloud platform, preferably in AWSKnowledge of hardware, software, applications, systems engineering, cloud, event streaming, microservices and APIsThe ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues