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:
- Proven Solution Architect with enterprise experience and strong expertise in cloud platforms, microservices/API-led architectures, and integration patterns with middleware
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, microservices and API-led architectures, and integration patterns with middleware
- Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms
- Knowledge of Property / Facilities / Workplace technology ecosystems
- Adopting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
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 defining and developing strategic solution 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.
You’ll 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, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
30/06/2026Skills Required
- Proven enterprise Solution Architect experience
- Expertise in cloud platforms
- Experience with microservices and API-led architectures
- Experience with integration patterns and middleware
- Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms
- Knowledge of Property / Facilities / Workplace technology ecosystems
- DevOps mindset and embedding architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Practitioner knowledge of solution architecture frameworks, agile architecture and DevOps practices
- Experience defining strategic solution architectures and engaging organisational partners
- Experience in architecture governance, risk management, design assurance and reviews
- Experience mentoring and developing architecture team capability
- Ability to create business cases and influence senior stakeholders for investment
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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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.
