Enterprise Architect, VP

Join us as an Enterprise Architect

• Well 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, solution architects, domain architects and engineers to ensure alignment and drive the implementation of architectural best practices within projects
• We're offering this role at vice president level

As an Enterprise Architect, youll support the architecting of customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the banks strategic target architecture.

Youll 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, youll 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 banks 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

To succeed in this role, youll 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.

Youll 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.

Youll 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.