VP Solution Architect

VP Solution Architect

Requirements

• Architecting modern distributed systems
• Influencing partners and stakeholders with clear, impactful communication
• Creating transitional architectures that leverage existing systems to solve difficult problems whilst making complex architectural trade-offs
• Communicating technical concepts to people without technical backgrounds
• Interpreting and ensuring governance and controls

Responsibilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Self-motivation and the ability to work independently
• Experience in financial services, particularly in risk, finance, or treasury areas
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and associated technologies
• Managing technical product selection processes and executing tech spikes/PoCs
• Previous software development experience (preferred but not essential)