Enterprise Architect
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understand the Bank's As-Is Architecture components including processes, capabilities, applications, technologies and integration
- Formulate and document project artefacts that help to articulate desired direction of travel:
- If required, act as the key technical point of contact for partners and engage with internal teams to ensure all interests are taken into account.
- Implementation Arrangements
- Responsible for the solution architecture for the Treasury & Operations transformation (covers at a high-level loan booking and administration, payments, guarantees management, exotic trade pricing and booking, market data management) aligning to the strategic vision, set by the Capability Lead Architect.
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders (consultancy firms, software vendors, service providers, etc.) to identify and analyse solution options, providing technical steer for the projects and BAU teams.
- Responsible for the solution architecture documentation and taking it through the governance.
- Ensure that solutions are an appropriate balance between short-term delivery needs and medium/long-term strategic aspirations. All deviations from agreed roadmaps should be explicit and agreed through appropriate governance.
- Responsible for the delivery of solution architecture artifacts throughout the project delivery lifecycle
- Cross-programme alignment of architectures, applications, and data to provide consistency and quality across the solution.
- Build and maintenance of catalogues and models at appropriate levels of abstraction.
- Identify and drive the resolution or remedy of issues and risks relating to the items above.
- Proposition of appropriate technologies and techniques for meeting challenges in the programme.
- Presentation and explanation of architecture matters in governance and other fora where appropriate
- Experience
- Experience working with financial services
- Excellent communication in both a written and verbal form
- Extensive experience in the solution architecture across Treasury Management Systems (TMS) and Commercial Lending solutions. Finastra Summit experience is mandatory.
- Understanding of Financial Processes including knowledge of cash management, forecasting, risk management, payments, accounting, compliance, etc
- Extensive experience in Solution Architecture methodology and frameworks. This involves understanding different architecture patterns, technologies, and platforms with the ability to demonstrate As-Is and To-Be
- Proven ability to transform wide-ranging business requirements and strategic aspirations into concise solution options within the set strategic vision and technical constraints
- Awareness of the leading industry trends in the architectural domain
- Good formal modelling skills, including UML
- Actively engaged and aware of current developments in architecture and related disciplines, tools and markets
- Experience in trade lifecycle management technical transformation, including experience with Finastra Summit (Treasury and/or Commercial Lending), integration of treasury systems with finance systems (e.g. S/4HANA), ActiveViam Atoti Business Solutions and solutions built on QuantLib
- Integration and API Skills: Knowledge of API integration and interfacing technologies
- Programming skills in one or more languages e.g. Python, Java, SQL
- Experience in payment systems (incl. experience with SWIFT)
- Ability to work across various technologies within the specific domain
- Understanding of different project delivery lifecycle frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to develop deep business knowledge and offer advice that spans across IT and business domains.
- Experience of large IT and Business Change programmes
- Able to work effectively across multiple cross-functional teams and contexts, responding to their differing needs and levels of expertise, in an Agile delivery model
- Experience in documenting and presenting architectural artefacts to the senior stakeholders, both IT and the business, and architectural governance process
- Experience operating in mid-sized corporate environment with technological legacy
- Experience in shaping the architecture in agile environment
- Proven experience in working collaboratively with the challenging stakeholders
- Demonstrable evidence of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Ability to make decisions in the environment of uncertainty with clear articulation of assumptions and risks.
- Working collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals
- Helping your team to succeed at all times and continuously improve
- Managing time to deliver working solutions of acceptable quality
- Adapting to change and challenging the team to deliver the best results possible
- Working closely with the customer so that the focus on business value is first and foremost in all decisions taken
- Negotiating and networking
- Being dynamic and self-motivated
- Handling complex and fluid situations in a measured and collaborative way
- Being persistent and resilient
- Evidence of ability to proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers
- Working in a diverse environment