Solution Designer - New Works, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money

Verified Company

New Works, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
Change & Delivery, Digital Engineering

Salary Range:
Up to circa £62,000 DOE

In our quest to make all things Digital Awesome, we never stop looking at how every bit of Digital banking works.

We sweat the small stuff, because we know it makes a big difference for our customers and our colleagues. But at the heart of this are our people
- who we couldn't do without. Our bold and brilliant colleagues who bring their A game and their Agile game, every single day. The question is - are you ready to bring yours?

What do YOU get when you join Virgin MoneyRed Hot Rewards of course

38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if parttime).
Up to five extra paid wellbeing days per year.
A 35 hour working week.
20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market leading Pension.
Private Medical Insurance.
Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness.
A digitalfirst colleague experience.
Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows).

All these benefits are available to colleagues from their first day. Have we got your attention?

So, what's our Digital Engineering Vision? Simply put, we will become a fully digitised bank, by developing a best-in-class digital delivery capability for our colleagues and our customers.

But how will we deliver it? By becoming a truly Agile Organisation,our Digital Engineering Agile journey started in October 2020, since then, we have set up new Tribes, new squads, new ways of workings, loads of training sessions and much much more, it's an exciting time to join the team, what are you waiting for?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Solutions Designer to join our Solutions Design team who will be a key contributor to the architecture used within the bank on the digital platform and will help shape our journey to become a fully digitised bank, whileimproving our Agile capability.

As a Solution Designer, we're not just looking for a technologist but for someone who also enjoys engaging and collaborating with stakeholders.

We believe in collaboration, with Agile at the heart of everything we do. We aren't perfect (who is?) so we iterate and improve as we go. We are looking for people who can not only help us continue to disrupt the banking sector but also how we become betterat what we do

Day to day you'll:

Deliver high level designs in support of strategic and architectural direction considering best practice and longterm vision
Work closely with business and Technology colleagues to ensure that design options are effectively evaluated, and robust recommendations made
Socialise designs for approval and review and provide feedback on designs produced by others
Contribute to the domain guild community of interest inputting where appropriate

To be successful you'll bring

Experience in Solutions Architecture / Design from financial services organisations across a range of technologies
A range of design experience
Practical experience in Agile development, e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

We'd like you to have (but not essential)

Some experience of working with third party delivery partners
Exposure / Interest of Microservice and event driven architectures
Exposure / Interest of working with a Platform As A Service (PAAS), cloud services and API's
Prepared to selflearn a new technology in short timescales, to assess the worth of technology platforms
Broad understanding of information security, and experience of risk based design
Understanding of infrastructure limitations and concerns
Atlassian Stack

This is a wish list so don't worry if you don't have all of these as we'd still love to hear from you Overall, your attitude and approach are as

important as the experience and skills that you will bring.

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Now the legal bit

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.