Join us as a Solution Designer
- Take on a varied role, where you’ll own the end-to-end high-level business design for a project, programme or initiative
- You’ll be working with 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
- We're offering this role at vice president level
As a Solution Designer, you’ll engage with relevant stakeholders as a single point of contact for design aspects. You’ll be representing the design function at governance forums and working with enterprise architects to make sure standards and principles are adhered to. You’ll also analyse requirements into coherent end-to-end designs, taking the business architecture into account.
Other duties include:
- Translating requirements into a series of transition state designs and an executable roadmap
- Delivering cost-effective designs for the business and aligning solutions with the corresponding business or IT architecture
- Documenting the relevant design in accordance with standard methods
- Making sure the solution design is aligned to the portfolio or enterprise architecture target state
You’ll already have a background in solution design and experience of using industry standard models and tools. Alongside good communication skills, you’ll also need the ability to lead and collaborate with both internal and external teams.
We’ll also want to see:
Lead the end-to-end design of AI, data, cloud and technology solutions, translating business requirements into target-state architectures, technology roadmaps and making sure designs are secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective
Create and maintain high-quality architectural deliverables, including solution designs, architecture decision records (ADRs), transition-state architectures, reusable design patterns and reference architectures
Partner with business, engineering and enterprise architecture teams to evaluate solution options, drive architectural alignment and ensure designs are practical, implementable and aligned to strategic objective
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
30/07/2026Skills Required
- Background in solution design using industry-standard models and tools
- Experience leading end-to-end design of AI, data, cloud and technology solutions
- Ability to translate business requirements into target-state architectures and technology roadmaps
- Experience producing architectural deliverables including solution designs, ADRs, transition-state architectures, reusable design patterns and reference architectures
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead and collaborate with internal and external teams
- Ability to align solutions with business or IT architecture and enterprise architecture target state
- Experience working with enterprise architects and governance forums to ensure standards and principles are adhered to
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.
