Enterprise Architect

Join us as an Enterprise Architect

• For someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope in order to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategy
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank

What you'll do

As an Enterprise Architect, 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 architecture outcomes.

We’ll look to you to 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 product backlog
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model
• 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 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
• Working directly with the Group COO business teams, defining a capability based target architecture for colleague experience technology across systems, which includes, ServiceNow, WorkDay and Microsoft Office 365

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of application architecture, as well as expertise in at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of the remaining disciplines. You'll have in depth knowledge of SaaS Services, with strong working knowledge of Microsoft product suite, ServiceNow and WorkDay. Along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

In addition, you'll have excellent communication skills, enabling you to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, while ensuring wider stakeholder buy in from strategies being delivered. Furthermore you’ll need experience in enterprise architecture in a large regulated financial institution, as well as experience in assessing and defining options to transform the colleague experience. 

You’ll also demonstrate:

• The ability to lead and drive architectural design for colleague technology
• 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
• The ability to balance strategic and interim designs, providing pragmatic solutions and options 
• Broad platform management and delivery experience, along with commercial and contracting experience