Architecture, Design - London, United Kingdom - NatWest Group

NatWest Group

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Architecture, Design & Infra Lead

You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its longterm strategy
With valuable exposure, you'll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for our bank

What you'll do:

As an Architecture, Design & Infra Lead, you'll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope.

You'll be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the best architecture outcomes.

We'll look to you influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.

As well as this, you'll be:

Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in the product backlog
Defining, creating, and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards, and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higherlevel models
Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating the design and platform teams across domains
Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision

The skills you'll need:

Ideally, you'll have experience of investment banking products.

You'll also demonstrate:

Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate with peers to ensure the full alignment to our One Bank principles
Experience of developing, syndicating, and communicating architectures, designs, and proposals for action
An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
A background in systems development change lifecycles, best practices, and approaches
Working knowledge of Cloud, AWS, and experience in a microservices environment