Senior Solution Architect

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect
Salary: £90,440 - £106,400
Location: Chester
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Chester office.
 

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About this opportunity
 

In the Consumer Lending business, we pride ourselves on delivering industry-leading customer journeys through engineering excellence. We're seeking experienced Architects to join our Credit Cards Engineering Team who build web-based Internet Banking system, accessible across web, mobile, and tablet platforms. The Architect role is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.
 

As part of the Credit Card Platform, you’ll join a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, all collaborating together and with the wider business. You’ll design solutions for our Internet Banking system, enabling customers to apply for credit cards, handle balance transfers, add cardholders, and increase credit limits. You’ll be responsible for the design, architecture decisions, and defining the end-to-end impacts (both functional and non-functional). You should also be comfortable communicating information to different customers, from business partners to the engineering community. You’ll report into a Lab Engineering Lead with responsibilities across the department, engaging with multiple feature teams
 

As part of the Credit Card Platform, you’ll design solutions for our Internet Banking system, enabling customers to apply for credit cards, handle balance transfers, add cardholders, and increase credit limits. You’ll be responsible for the design, architecture decisions, and defining the end-to-end impacts (both functional and non-functional). You should also be comfortable communicating information to different customers, from business partners to the engineering community. You’ll report into a Lab Engineering Lead with responsibilities across the lab.

What you’ll do
 

• Collaborate with other architects, engineers, and technicians within and outside of the platform to create robust and scalable solution designs.

• Own the design of solutions throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, providing guidance and direction ensuring alignment to Product objectives.

• Through expert engineering and architectural skills, translate high-level business requirements into technology architectures that align to the strategic architecture.

• Innovation, bringing new ideas and technologies into the platform to disrupt existing thinking on ways of working and solutions design.

• Lead senior business partners to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that delivery aligns to longer-term roadmaps.

• Take designs through governance processes with meaningful architectural artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required.

What you’ll need
 

• Strong software engineering and architecture background, with the ability to engage in low level application details.

• You should expect to operate at varying levels of detail across the stack, managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

• A passion to collaborate daily, working closely with your team, to design great product experiences and help ship continuous value to our customers.

• Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.

• A desire to move fast, whilst maintaining an extremely high quality bar. Balancing pragmatism and cost-benefit analysis.

• Experience across the entire solutions development lifecycle from inception, through build to production.

• You'll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability.

• Experience of API design, event driven systems and microservice architecture patterns.

• Experience of cloud-native architectures across public & private Cloud Solutions, ideally Google Cloud Platform.

It would be great if you also had:
 

• Startup/scale-up experience, in a product led environment.

• Understanding of the full development stack and lifecycle.

• Experience of confidential data processing, machine learning, AI and integration of large datasets into transactional products.

• Delivering against company and industry guidelines and regulations e.g. cyber security and data protection.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.