(Enterprise Technology) Solution Architect

Solution Architect 

 

We are looking for a detail-oriented and experienced Solutions Architect to join our Solution Architecture team, focusing on the creation of solution architectures to support our Model Risk Platforms and Strategic Transformation programme. 

You will work closely with other architects, stakeholders, engineers, business analysts, and IT teams to ensure solutions meet business needs.

Experience as a Solution Architect is essential with demonstrable experience preparing solution architecture documentation, including reference architectures, logical, functional and physical designs, and presenting that to peers and governance boards for review and approval.

 

Location: Cracow (5 days in month)

Contract: B2B

  

In this role, you will:

• Work with multiple stakeholders, colleagues and vendors across the MRM Business, Transformation, IT, Architecture and Engineering teams, helping them define their technology vision, strategy and solutions.
• Lead the creation of, and own, solution architectures for Model Risk Management, including reference architectures, solution architectures and other artefacts and documents under the oversight of the GRC Architecture leadership.
• Contribute to the Model Risk Management Enterprise Architecture.
• Prepare and present architecture documents and artefacts to peers and governance boards for review and approval.
• Ensure the architecture governance practices are followed and designs are correctly aligned and supportive of the related Compliance & Company strategies (Tech, Data, Cloud, Security, etc.).
•  Liaise and collaborate with many geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders to build knowledge and coordinate solution design.
•  Drive the transfer of knowledge to others through both written and verbal means.

 

 

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• A strong solution architecture background.
• Experience with cloud and cloud architectures, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of a wide range of technologies and solutions, using these to design creative and innovative solutions.
• Be capable of having technical discussions with engineering teams where required.
• A strong collaborator
• Experience of working with Enterprise Architectures.
• A track record of owning and delivering solutions across a broad spectrum of the project delivery lifecycle in involving mixed-shore resource in a complex stakeholder environment.
• The ability to communicate efficiently upwards (to business), downwards (to IT teams) and laterally (to peers, vendors, and client-side staff).
•  Familiarity with technology concepts, roles, and terminology, and the ability to work closely with application architects and modelers.
• Experience with API design and micro-service architectures.
• The ability to serve as an active participant in architecture groups and forums communicating solution strategy and design in conversation, documentation and presentations.
  

 

High Level & Holistic Capabilities sought:

• Experience in digital and broader architectural transformation, applying solutions from experience in decomposing monolithic solutions and methods to manage technical debt.
•  Experience working with enterprise architectures, translating those into solution architectures.
• Ability to understand, articulate and translate customer journeys into solution and technical design, leveraging API and micro-service architecture techniques.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of enterprise level software development and API based integration e.g. Spring, Kong
• Participate in technical design and oversee all technology related issues of cloud native product development, building a micro-services based architecture, promoting API reuse and managing down technical debt across the enterprise.