Enterprise Architect (Party, Customer & Reference Data)

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 Enterprise Architect

• This is an opportunity for a mid-level experienced architect to help us define the technical architecture and design that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer-term strategy within Financial Crime
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope making sure that the architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long-term strategy
• You'll have an exciting opportunity to collaborate and influence our technical strategy, evolving target state architecture, roadmaps and specific solutions
• We're offering this role at vice president level
  

What you'll do
As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope. You’ll be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.We’ll also look to you to analyse the business strategy and the wider business environment to identify the capabilities that the architecture must provide and support over the long term, translating these into architecture outcomes.As well as this, you’ll be:

• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher-level model
• Collaborating with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
• Gaining agreement and buy-in with key stakeholders, including relevant business owners and product managers
• Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision
  

The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a practitioner of application architecture, with good knowledge of at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with a basic understanding of the remaining disciplines. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches
• Experience in Machine learning, Agentic AI and Digital journeys would be preferred