AddressArbuthnot Latham has been associated with banking since 1833. We combine private and commercial banking, wealth planning and investment management. We believe in traditional relationship and service-led banking powered by modern technology.
Job Purpose
- The Solution Architect is responsible for the design and implementation of designs and documentation at the system level. This role requires strong technical expertise, communication and ability to problem solve complex problems in a way that achieves scalable, resilient and secure IT solutions.
- As the Solutions Architect, you will play a vital role in shaping and implementing solutions which bring to life the Bank’s strategic vision for business and technology. You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders, including Business and Enterprise Architects, IT Leaders, Business Executives and Technology teams to hone and optimize our technology solutions. In your role, you will harmonise the technology with strategy.
- Where applicable, to place the interests of customers at the centre of all activities, act in a way that is consistent with achieving good outcomes for consumers; and to comply with the FCA and PRA's Conduct Rules.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Head of Platforms, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams;
- Be responsible for our application architecture and the delivery of our engineering design deliverables and managing architecture decisions through formal governance processes whilst ensuring IT Compliance and governance policies are met.
- Partner with fellow architects & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies.
- Provide 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.
- Promote adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
- Capture technical design risks or issues and drive resolution through architectural or agile practices.
- Responsible for managing risks inherent to the role by diligently observing internal policies and procedures.
Key Interfaces:
- Business Transformation and Systems Development Director
- Technical teams
- Director, Transformation Enablement
- Heads of IT Platforms
- Head of IT Infrastructure and Operations
- Director, Operational Resilience, Risk & Control
