Keystone Lead Architect

Join us as a Keystone Lead Architect

• Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what's possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we're passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you're ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

You'll be joining our Digital domain, where our digital strategy is driving the delivery of a digital ecosystem that improves the customer experience, enables our colleagues to better serve our customers, and achieves the growth and revenue goals of our business. 

As a Keystone Lead Architect, you'll be architecting customer centric, high performance, secure and robust end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank's strategic target architecture.

You'll be actively contributing to the growth of architecting capability and the community across the bank by sharing knowledge including best practices, proven solutions and key learnings, contributing to the community of practice, and building capability in others through coaching, mentoring and teaching.

As well as this, you'll be:

• Supporting the realisation of the Enterprise and Solution Architecture, working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle
• Providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices
• Proactively influencing stakeholders to embed the reuse of digital capabilities, contributing to simplification and the realisation of the bank's strategic target architecture
• Partnering and engaging with programme stakeholders and following the bank's data driven architecture method and framework to define and evolve the minimum viable solution architectures that deliver the programme objectives and business value
• Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
• Undertaking design reviews of delivery programmes of high architectural significance or high architectural risk

To take on this role, you'll need expert knowledge of solution architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.

You'll bring extensive experience of defining and developing strategic solution architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Proficiency in understanding of commercial banking from the perspective of frontline staff or product fulfilment, including the ability to analyse customer journeys and align them with high level target architecture
• Experience producing relevant UML Architecture artefacts, including PlantUML, sequence diagrams, and data flow, to define specific journey implementations
• A solid understand of key engineering concepts required for scalable digital platforms composed of web, inhouse and vendor technology
• Proven experience of leading collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with senior business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction
• Experience of identifying and advocating for strategic investment opportunities that enhance the organisation's architecture goals
• Experience of crafting compelling business cases and influencing senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives
• Extensive experience of overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance

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