Associate Solution Architect

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital XIn everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.Join us as an Associate Solution Architect in Payments Technology

• This is a great opportunity 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 help 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
• We're offering this role at associate level
  

What you'll do
We’ll look to you collaborate across platform and domain teams to support the solution delivery. Working closely with these teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and supporting the continuous delivery pipeline.You’ll also provide analysis of options and help to deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as assisting with producing designs for features, in line with the architecture, that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value.On top of this, you’ll be:

• Working closely with engineers and other architecture disciplines within payments spanning the SDLC
• Analysing technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
• Contributing to the activities to shape requirements, and 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
• Analysing potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends by using industry thinking and best practice
  

The skills you'll need
You’ll bring good knowledge of application, business, data or infrastructure architecture with a foundation level knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You’ll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.In addition, you’ll bring:

• 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
• Knowledge of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues