Join us as a Solution Architect
- We’ll look to you to create the solution architecture definition for your assigned change projects, in addition to supporting the delivery of business outcomes that benefit both customers and colleagues
- You'll be working closely with stakeholders to contribute to the design and implementation of digital solutions, validating alignment with the bank’s strategic target architecture and roadmap
- If you’re ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you’re looking for
- We're offering this role at vice president level
As a Solution Architect, you’ll be architecting customer centric, high performance, secure and robust end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architectures and roadmaps.
You’ll be supporting the growth of architecting capability, contributing to the development of architecture skills across the team by sharing knowledge, best practices, lessons learned, and mentoring others.
As well as this, you’ll be:
- Supporting the realisation of the enterprise and solution architecture, working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle
- Providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices
- Collaborating with programme stakeholders to help define the minimum viable solution architectures, while following the bank’s architecture method and frameworks
- Supporting the selection and integration of technologies using the bank’s approved technology catalogues and patterns, with a focus on practical and immediate application
- Adopting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
To take on this role, you’ll need practitioner knowledge of solution 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.
You’ll bring practitioner experience of 12 years in defining and developing strategic solution architectures that align with organisational objectives with expertise in AWS cloud platforms (S3, Redshift, RDS/Aurora, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis).This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.
You’ll also demonstrate experience of:
- Collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with senior stakeholders and architecture forums ,translating business strategy into clear, actionable data architecture roadmaps
- Creating data architecture strategy and standards, including data modeling, integration patterns, and reference architectures across multiple domains
- Designing real‑time and batch data integrations, enabling large‑scale analytics, personalisation, and decisioning platforms such as Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH).
- Data governance, security, and regulatory compliance, embedding GDPR, IAM, encryption, and privacy‑by‑design into cloud architectures
- People capability development, including mentoring, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
28/01/2026Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
