Thrive IT Systems
Solutions Architect
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About the Company
Data and Messaging is a Value Stream within the Wealth and Personal Banking global business delivering data and insights to drive business decisions and managing the conversation with our customers through personal and relevant messaging.
About the Role
The Data Solution Architect role will focus on the data and analytics architecture within the Value Stream both from a global capability and market delivery perspective. The Solution Architect leads end-to-end solution design across all WPB change whether in the regions or Global Value Streams. They are responsible for delivering in line with global patterns and strategies where appropriate and to align business requirements to technology solutions. They will provide consistent end-to-end solution designs which will deliver expected Business Outcomes, satisfy all relevant regulatory requirements, and mitigate identified operational risks. Their primary stakeholders are Product Owners, Business Technical Leads, Platform and Value Stream architects, and PODs.
Responsibilities
End to End Solution Design
- Defining the detailed end-to-end solution design for products and features in a way that supports the execution of the WPB technology strategy and roadmap, articulating and addressing associated architectural risks, issues, and technical debt.
- Translating the requirements created by business analysts into the architecture for that solution, ensuring the products and services meet the customer needs and expected Business Outcomes.
- Engaging with relevant Stakeholders, Platform, and Enterprise Architects who inform solution design.
- Ensuring the design of the solutions are cost-effective and maintained through the agile development lifecycle, managing the flow of the backlog of design activities.
- Ensuring the NFRs are consistently defined and architected into the design.
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Responsibilities - Risk Management
- Effectively manage and escalate risks and issues to ensure there are no surprises for the PM or stakeholder where appropriate.
Responsibilities - Governance
- Ensuring the architecture undergoes an appropriate level of assessment at the right stage throughout the agile process in line with the WPB Governance process, ensuring adherence to Decision Driven Design and the Solution Architecture FIM.
- Production of relevant risk-based architecture deliverables is completed in accordance with WPB Architecture governance process and quality standards.
- Appropriate level of governance for any decisions when deviating from Reference Architectures, Strategies, Patterns, or Policies.
- Peer review and solutions design decision-making verification and traceability.
Responsibilities - Architecture Mindset
- Collaborating with the Enterprise Platform and Value Stream architects to evolve the architectural strategy and roadmap, looking for opportunities to improve the current landscape enterprise.
- Identifying dependencies across multiple Platforms and Value Sub-Value Streams awareness of projects, strategies outside of the Value Stream.
- Developing and growing a skillset to design for cloud and for resilient, robust, secure, adaptable, and flexible solution.
- Acting as an interface to other architectural groups both regional and at Group level.
Responsibilities - Leadership
- Providing leadership with individual PODs or working with a number of PODs to ensure consistency of direction.
Required Skills
Key Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Capability to influence and champion new ideas and technical direction within the organization.
- Ability to collaborate with the Business and Engineers to ensure solutions adhere to principles and direction set.
- Ability to breakdown nonfunctional requirements into Infrastructure and Security designs.
- Excellent Communication skills and the ability to adapt verbal and written communications to the appropriate audience to communicate at the right level.
- Responsible for significant architectural decisions and provide justification for decisions taken.
- Technical and business stakeholder management from developers to executive management.
- Good understanding of the Business Functional Domains.
- Awareness of Infrastructure Design and concepts.
- Awareness on Integration concepts, techniques, and patterns.
- Experience in AIML solution delivery or product development preferably within regulated industries.
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Preferred Skills
Key Behaviours
- Approachable manner and be a supportive team member with a collaborative attitude within a demanding, fun, fast-paced Agile environment.
- Proactive.
- An abundance of drive, motivation, determination, dedication, resiliency, honesty, and enthusiasm.
- Personal maturity and confidence to listen, reflect, and adapt upon what others communicate to you.
- Excellent Stakeholder Management.
- Keen Learner Demonstrates Continuous Improvement.
- Technology Savvy.
- Pragmatic.
- Flexibility and composed under pressure.
- Ownership.
- Capable of communicating based upon the target audience.
- Cultural awareness and sensitivity.
- Builds Networks.
- Skills
- Mandatory Skills: Business Architecture.
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