Global Risk Analytics Enterprise Architect - City of London, United Kingdom - IBSC Recruitment

IBSC Recruitment

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City of London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Title:
Global Risk Analytics Enterprise Architect

Location:
London / Hybrid (2x days a week onsite if required)

Duration:
Months Rolling Contract

THIS CONTRACT IS INSIDE IR35

Overview:

Risk IT provides technology services in support of Global Risk, THE BANK's "Second line of Defence" Function.

Global Risk is a diverse and evolving Function, acting as "Risk Steward" for many of THE BANK's financial and non-financial risks.

Given THE BANK'sglobal and universal banking model, the Risk Function is structured to "Protect and enable" THE BANK's four global business across all regions.

To achieve these critical, dual goals, Global Risk is organised into a number of Sub-Functions. The Global Risk Analytics and WPB Risk sub-function focusses on the model development lifecycle for all aspects of risk, largely in relation to models for WholesaleCredit Risk (WCR), Traded Risk and WPB Risk

Global Risk Analytics and WPB Risk diverse and critical responsibilities give rise to a wide range of technology demands spanning:

Data environments for the development of models
Model development tools
Platforms for the build and deployment of models
Model execution orchestration
Model Monitoring and reporting

These services must be provided reliably, in an environment of evolving regulatory obligations whilst driving towards THE BANK's goal of delivering its IT services in a cloud-first manner.

Purpose of the Job:

Reporting to the Chief Risk Architect, the role will work with the Head of Global Risk Analytics Technology to develop and be accountable for the architecture of this service line.

The role will be responsible for maintaining, developing and communicating the overall roadmap for the service line.

This includes responsibility for a team of service based architects, working closely to provide guidance on designs and changes, and formallyreviewing/approving submitted designs to ensure that they are aligned to Group and Risk technology principles, strategy and standards.

The role will have senior membership of the Global Risk Analytics and WPB Risk IT Exco as well as the Risk Architecture Exco.

Responsible For:

All Architecture deliverables, including:

Defining the target state architecture and interim steps from target state, in the context of the overall Risk Technology Architecture and the bank's overall Technology and Data principles and strategies
Obtaining approvals from appropriate technical design authorities
Representing GRA on technology and architecture governance committees
Presenting to senior IT and business stakeholders
Guiding solution, data and infrastructure architects on developing appropriate detailed designs for approval
Communicating GRA architecture designs and principles to the delivery and technical leads, providing suitable guidance
Ensuring alignment with Risk and organisational level architecture principles, practices and strategy
Leading and mentoring the team of architects within GRA

The key focus area for the role holder is to provide architectural support for the creation of a single hybrid-cloud modelling platform, with demise the existing systems.

This platform will manage the whole lifecycle of modelling, from the development ofa diverse set of models that support all businesses within THE BANK, management of approvals to use the model, and the execution / monitoring of the model once approved.

This will involve stakeholder management, both high level and low level design activity, oversight on system designs and guidance to solution architects.

The role holder must work with the communities of practice to maximize automation to ensure designs increase efficiency and instil best practice, the latest tools, techniques and processes have been adopted.

Navigate THE BANK's unique complexity and its need for consensusdriven decision making
Influence various business and IT stakeholders to deliver solution designs inline with agreed Global Risk Analytics business strategy
Understand and promote the value of strategic architecture in the sustainable reduction in longterm operating costs

IDEAL CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

The role holder will have held Senior Architect roles in similarly sized organisations, where they will have been able to develop and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of technology, modeller and business stakeholders.

Specific Requirements:

Experience of modelling within a banking or finance institution, able to demonstrate an understanding of both analytics and modelling lifecycles and changes (ideally in the context of Risk Management)
Experience of cloud based system design, ideally hybridcloud using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Certification would be advantageous
Kubernetes based design and development experience evidence of designs leading to successful production of large scale solutions would be advantageous
Apache Spark based design and development experience
Technical experience of Python
Experience of working in a DevOps organisation
Experience of running a globally distributed team of solution architects
Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to describe complex technology issues simply to nontechnical stakeholders
Collaborative team player