Assistant Vice President, Solution Architect, Consumer Banking Group Technology, Technology & Operations

Business Function Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient 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. Responsibilities

• Develop a vision and a roadmap for consumer finance platform
• Drive a target and consistent application architecture across the enterprise and different platforms in the bank.
• Define and own the architecture for Consumer finance platform across business functions & geographic regions.
• 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 aligns with enterprise wide patterns and 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 by participating in peer reviews for other solutions

• Ability to convert ideas into presentation that provides clarity to the stakeholders
• Ability to illustrate complex system interaction using industry standard notations such as UML
• Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Availability
• Ability to play "Devil's advocate"
• 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
• Understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
• Experience of Credit Cards, Commercial Cards, Unsecured Lending and Card Payments would be beneficial for this role
• Has experience of and is conversant with migration from legacy estate delivery to cloud based solutions, DevOps practices and agile delivery method.