Solutions Architect
Posted 3 days ago by Hellowork Consultants
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Solutions Architect role involves building and maintaining strong relationships with key business partners and stakeholders to align business strategies with IT solutions. The position requires effective communication with senior management and leadership on strategic matters, as well as consulting on systems design and implementation to enhance retail business processes. The architect will also develop project scopes, blueprints, and operational standards to drive efficiency and innovation within the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segment
- Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs
- Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department
- Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance
- Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations
- Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps
- Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation
- Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners
- Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization
- Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines
- Influences business decisions made by leadership
- Leads, guides, and mentors best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies
- Determines how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs
- Acts as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases
- Completes current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation
Key Skills:
- 10 years of experience
- Solution Architect and Core Banking experience with Payments
- Restful APIs, API-led design
- Banking functional concepts: Customer Authentication, Payments, Billpay, monetary movements, Zelle, FundNow, TransferNow
- Integration design experience
- Create logical/functional architecture diagram, create integration by use case sequence diagram
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Glasgow City
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Responsibilities:
- Strong ongoing relationships with key business partners and managers within each business segments
- Builds and maintains relationships and trust with key business stakeholders to understand business strategy and future needs
- Communicates monthly updates and produces presentations to senior management on matters of strategic importance to the department
- Communicates with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance
- Consults with architecture and technical teams on systems design and implementation, helping to grow and develop the current retail business processes and technology implementations
- Consults with senior leadership and IT leaders to develop project scopes and business cases that meet both business and IT strategies and roadmaps
- Consults with the Architecture & IT teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps needed to achieve appropriate balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, allowing individual business units to innovate safely in their pursuit of competitive advantage
- Continually communicates and builds consensus with IT and business partners
- Develops and implements new Architecture products, processes, standards of operational plans that will impact the achievement of functional standards and principles throughout the organization.
- Improves efficiencies by identifying cost saving projects and opportunities for the corporate business lines
- Influences business decisions made by leadership
- Leads, guides, and mentors best practices, design standards, and implementation strategies
- Determine how products and services could be designed or modified to suit the commercial banking needs
- Act as a liaison between Business Units and Consumer Banking IT during design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance phases, throughout the entire life cycle of the product.
- Complete current state analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.