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 at least 12 years of experience 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:
- Deep understanding of application, data, and infrastructure architecture, with working knowledge of frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate.
- Experience in designing solutions across complex banking domains, including core banking, payments, lending, and digital channels
- Familiarity with Agile delivery models and DevOps practices
- Proven ability to design secure solutions across hybrid cloud environments
- Knowledge of Microservices, APIs, RESTful services, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Experience with data architecture, including data modelling, data engineering, and governance
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
25/05/2026Skills Required
- 12 years of experience in solution design
- Deep understanding of application, data, and infrastructure architecture
- Working knowledge of frameworks like TOGAF or ArchiMate
- Experience in designing solutions across banking domains
- Familiarity with Agile delivery models and DevOps practices
- Ability to design secure solutions across hybrid cloud environments
- Knowledge of Microservices, APIs, RESTful services, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Experience with data architecture, including data modeling, engineering, and governance
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.
