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Join us as a Solution Designer Take on a varied role in our Digital X Analytics team, where you ll own the end-to-end high-level business design for a project, programme or initiative You ll be working within a multi-disciplined analytics squad model across a range of stakeholders to identify investment priorities, define opportunities and shape journeys to meet our strategic goals This is a chance to shape the future of our business and gain great exposure across the bank in the process Were offering this role at vice president level What youll do As a Solution Designer, you ll serve as the primary point of contact for design-related aspects, ensuring alignment with strategic principles through governance forums. You ll be working closely with enterprise architects to maintain adherence to established standards and principles. We ll look to you to synthesise requirements into comprehensive end-to-end designs by collaborating with data architects within stakeholder teams. Additionally, you ll be: Translating requirements into a set of transition state designs and a practical roadmap Developing cost-effective designs that align with corresponding business or IT architecture Documenting design details in line with standard methods Ensuring the solution design aligns with the portfolio or enterprise architecture target state, while engaging colleagues across analytics activities in the design process Architecting and designing scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions for AWS and on-premise environments Applying design patterns and architectural best practices in cloud, data, and AI solutions The skills you ll need To make an impact with us, you ll need a solid background in solution design and experience of utilising industry standard models and tools. Alongside excellent communication skills, you ll also need the ability to lead and collaborate with both internal and external teams, and to clearly convey complex technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders. You ll bring proficient knowledge of serverless computing, microservices including Lambda, SQS and SNS, EventBridge and API Gateway, containerisation such as Docker, orchestration such as EKS and Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures like Kafka. Ideally, you ll also have experience with generative AI solutions, GitOps, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Route53, Agile and Scrum, and RAG architecture. We ll also want to see: Knowledge of both the Data & Analytics and stakeholder technical domains with an understanding of key elements to ensure alignment to strategic roadmaps A comprehensive understanding of the financial services environment and regulatory frameworks Expertise in external influences and advancements that impact design A solid grounding in security architectures, including IAM, Ping Identity suite such as PingFederate and PingAccess, mTLS, RBAC, and ABAC Proven experience with cloud-native monitoring and observability practices including AWS CloudWatch, Grafana and Splunk A strong understanding of network and API security standards including OAuth2, JWT and SAML Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 21/05/2025
