Solution Architect

Solutions Architect, Hybrid with Travel, Azure, Governance, Java, stakeholder management, Microservices

A leading player within the Financial Services space is seeking a solid and proven Solution Architect who can help shape, define and deliver 1st class projects and take this client on their customer experience.

About the role:

Whoever joins the team will play a critical role in crafting solutions that can provide continuous flow and will be responsible for:

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
• Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
• Promoting adaptive design practises driving collaboration across Platform teams, which are centred on a common vision with continuous feedback.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture.
• Demonstrating industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in crafting opportunities & value for our customers.
• Contributing to the financial investment process to acquire funding for key solution opportunities.
• Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
• Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
• Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously Evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform.
• Help develop our talented people evangelise for the architecture principles through mentoring, coaching and participation.

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Skills required:

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
• Are excited at the prospect of changing culture by inspiring change through new insights with teams or like-minded people, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions.
• Have experience in systems engineering or solution architecture with an appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test Driven Development.
• Enjoy communicating & influencing audiences with little or no technical knowledge while aligning recommendations to organisational strategy & imperatives.
• Worked with collaborators to influence their thinking about what is possible through technology innovation.
• Have understanding & experiences in applying different project, architecture, life cycling and risk management methods to bring in customer value.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns.
• Have experience in defining and/or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture, Emergent & Intentional architecture techniques.
• Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or tackle business problems.
• Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
• Familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.
• Have an ability to understand how and where third party products could be deployed, including solid understanding of vendor evaluation and selection processes & best practises.
• Prior experience in native mobile apps, cross-platform/hybrid apps, API Gateway Management, and microservices domains.

Two days in the Bristol office but you will be expected to travel into London for meetings/workshops( this will be expensed)

Solutions Architect, Hybrid with Travel, Azure, Governance, Java, stakeholder management, Microservices

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.