NatWest Group
Domain Architect, Banking & Lending

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Join us as Domain Architect in Banking & Lending
We’ll look to you to support the definition of strategic target architectures and roadmaps, focusing on specific components and solutions. You'll be providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices. Gain valuable exposure as you build relationships with stakeholders such as business partners, change management specialists, architects, and engineers to ensure alignment and drive the implementation of architectural best practices for the Private Banking Products & Services division within Private Banking & Wealth Management.
What you'll do
As a Domain Architect, you’ll support the architecting of customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end client journeys, digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architecture.
You’ll be contributing to the development of architecture capabilities by proactively building personal capability and sharing knowledge, best practices, lessons learned, and participating in communities of practice.
As Well As This, You’ll Be
- Supporting the realisation of enterprise and solution architectures, while working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle
- Participating in design reviews for programmes with high architectural significance or risk, ensuring quality solution architecture and design, and escalating key decisions to senior architects or the Architecture Council
- Helping to drive the adoption of the bank’s target architecture by educating stakeholders and delivery partners on the benefits of modernising and optimising digital and data assets across the bank
- Monitoring and staying informed about emerging technologies, identifying potential opportunities and threats and raising them with the Architecture Council for further evaluation
- Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
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The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll either be currently working, or have previously been in an enterprise or solution architect role with a strong understanding of private banking products, services, and processes. In addition, you’ll also be able to clearly articulate the architectures you have designed particularly those involving the integration of core banking platforms with digital channels, as well as payment, open banking, or card processing systems. Avaloq core banking platform and AWS skills are advantageous.


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You’ll need knowledge of enterprise 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, and you’ll also bring experience of defining and developing strategic target 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 Experience Of
- Collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction
- Creating business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives
- Participating in overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance
- Supporting architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards
- People capability development, including mentoring, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams, and promoting best practices
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