JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
The Smarter Journeys Lab sits within the Colleague Channels Platform. Our mission is to create re-usable colleague and customer solutions that are highly intuitive and automated, underpinned by a modern infrastructure which enables a highly flexible and responsive workforce. This will provide customers with a choice of channels that are consistent, easy to access and navigate between. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

As a Senior Solution Architect, you’ll also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams.
• Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery.
• Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback.
• Be responsible for the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises.
• Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms.
• Take designs through governance processes with meaningful architectural artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required throughout the design phase.
• Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures.
• Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions