Senior Solution Architect

at  Bank of Ireland

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

At Bank of Ireland, Solution Architecture plays a vital role in our journey to lead the banking industry in creating a digital first environment.
We are looking for talented and driven Solution Architects to join us on this journey. The successful candidates will work across a range of technologies both on premise and cloud as well as working with vendors providing specialist capabilities.
We recognise our people as our greatest asset, and we strive to nurture your personal development and career growth!

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Design end-to-end solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation.
• Work with the business and projects to help define and refine their requirements.
• Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions.
• Produce required design artefacts, independently or as part of a team.
• Define and derive best practices and contribute to the development of the overall architecture practice.
• Present to the Bank’s Architecture Review Board when necessary.
• Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction.
• Support delivery leadership to break down the solution so that it can be delivered incrementally.
• Support and collaborate with other engineering functions, including integration and data factories, information security, build, test and release.
• Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose.