NatWest Group Looking for Solution Architect, VP at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

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Join us as a Solution Architect

This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define the high level technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy

You’ll define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains

Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank

What you’ll do

We’ll look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating the continuous delivery pipeline.

You’ll also provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value.

On top of this, you’ll be:
Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design

Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture

Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback

Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with Commercial Banking experience and expert knowledge of application architecture, and in business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You’ll have Payments and Commercial cards solution design experience with a thorough understanding of solution patterns and end-to-end system design experience, along with experience of performing technical designs for a complex solution involving Payment and Cards system.

Additionally, you’ll need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.

On top of this, you’ll bring:
Experience in microservices, modern IT architecture, and Cloud and deployment architecture

Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture

A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain

Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches

Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering

The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues