Tech Solution Architect

Business FunctionGroup Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient Services and infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

ResponsibilitiesSubject Matter Expertise- Act as visionary and strategist for solution/application area•

Survey market landscape for solution/application insights, direction, vendors, and methods•

Provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design artifacts•

Make presentations at internal conferences and author internal publications.•

Act as technology leaders within our wider digital and technology practices, providing thought leadership, guidance and coaching to junior members of team.

Early Ideation - Help business development life cycle by serving as a solution SME to help identify and qualify business development opportunities•

Provide end to end solution and design details•

Drive POCs to assess new solution/application paths•

Lead / participate in product selection process and fit gap analysis

Responsible for the change in delivery and deployment strategy for all•

Maintain and monitor all aspects of the application:•

Interoperability•

Performance and scalability•

Reliability and availability•

Application lifecycle stage•

Technological risks•

Number of instances / countries•

Functionality and Capability•

Maintain and monitor all aspects of the application:-

Interoperability-

Performance and scalability-

Reliability and availability-

Application lifecycle stage-

Technological risks-

Number of instances / countries-

Functionality and Capability•

Understand the system process flow of the primary business processes. Give a clear picture of the functionality map and the applications footprint of various applications across the map.•

Hands-on involvement in Agile, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and outcome-based delivery model is essential.•

Responsible for the change in delivery and deployment strategy for all

Methodology and Quality Assurance - Lead development of formalized solution methodologies• Create, Manage & Update repository for solution/application artifacts• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate with Project Managers and technical staff to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution/application plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts• Contribute during project life cycle, from initial kickoff through requirements analysis, design and implementation phases for projects within the solution/application area• Provide quality assurance for services within the solution/application area• Write, or direct the writing of white papers that add further insight and thought in the solution/application area• Drive a target and consistent application architecture across the enterprise and different platforms in the bank considering various business functions & geographic locations.• Drive application & technical architectures to ensure scalability, data consistency, speed of access, appropriate monitoring & instrumentation• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into design within the enterprise context; help business and technology define appropriate non-functional requirements and help in assessing the error budget defined.• Ensure application architecture uses best in breed enterprise wide and open source tools.• Create deployment strategies for existing and new services based on business objectives.• Document and create reusable architecture and design specifications.• Provide strategic and tactical solutions for technical issues.• Manage different stakeholders to arrive at end-to-end technical design.• Interact professionally with a diverse people such as management, executives and SMEs.• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, during the SDLC. Get development team's buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented.• Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles. Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.• Document and manage how multiple applications are poised to work together. Involves defining the interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware systems in terms of functional coverage.• Assists in the analysis of new and existing architectures to ensure engineering platforms meet business requirements• Assists in the design of overall system and solution architecture, system integration, and implementation strategy to deliver an integrated solution• Works with both internal and external partners and suppliers to deliver end to end solution• Contributes to broader architectural governance activities (including but not limited to) participation in peer reviews for other solutions•

Technically hands on and able to drive POCs on open source and next generation architectural concepts and technologies.•

Able to do a deep dive on vendor platforms for vendor/ platform evaluation or to solve vendor platform issues.Requirements• Demonstrated 10-15 years' experience as a technical specialist• 5+ years of experience as a solution architect design and implementation of cloud native solution• Proven expertise in Java, Springboot, React, RDBMS and No SQL DB, Caching and Elastic search solutions etc.• Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder planning processes, driving cross-team programs to desired results, and managing risk.• Proven competency in strategic leadership, executive communication and influence, organizational agility, cross-team collaboration, drive for results, and written and verbal communications• Demonstrated leadership abilities; effective in matrix management and team building• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to speak to technical-level staff and summarize communications for business stakeholders and executives• Ability to act as in a consultative manner with both business and IT leaders to align strategy• Knowledge in technical program management methodologies.• Experience taking ownership and delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.• Deep knowledge and experience in Cloud Native/ API / Micro-services, Agile / Dev-Ops, CI / CD technologies and best practises• Strong presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and business audiences.• Understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Availability• Experience of Credit Cards, Commercial Cards, Unsecured Lending and Card Payments• Has experience of and is conversant with migration from legacy estate delivery to cloud based solutions, DevOps practices and agile delivery method.

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