Lead Architect

What you will be doing Proposition Development – Generate insights, define the solution and produce a holistic proposition for an application portfolio with high level of unknown and uncertainty by adopting a structured approach to reimagine the customer journey/ business process/technology solution and demonstrating thought leadership. Sell and Influence- Pitch the solution and influence senior stakeholders in business and technology. Align the cross-functional teams on the vision, objectives and approach. Architecture and Design – Co-create the solution design across functional, technical, integration, data and deployment areas, working along with a dedicated team on greenfield or brownfield projects. Hands on Engineering – Support team to produce engineering playbook, implement reference implementations, create low/no code frameworks, visualise and automate the route to live process and help drive engineering excellence. Promote engineering excellence and build community – Able to articulate clear vision for engineering excellence, build a community by leading the engineering guilds and coaching/mentoring the team. Enhance architectural and engineering body of knowledge – Curate re-usable process, patterns, artefacts and templates to build the body of knowledge Product Delivery - Able to add value to product delivery by working with product owners, architects, engineering and delivery leads. What you will need to succeed Ability to understand & deep dive into product, architecture, engineering and way of working to effectively engage with the team, facilitate/own resolution of impediments and provide hands-on leadership across the lifecycle Natural inclination to lead, influence, coach teams including customer & partner stakeholders, to promote quicker and faster delivery of value, whilst maintaining focus on the goals and outcomes. Excellent communication and collaboration skills and ability to quickly establish credibility. Strong experience of architecting and engineering diverse set of applications e.g. customer/colleague facing, system of engagement / insights / records, orchestration across various industries with strong experience in banking Strong programming skills and experience of building cloud native applications across breadth of technologies and deep knowledge of one of the hyperscaler, preferably GCP. Experience in building and deploying microservices architectures using Spring Boot, Spring Batch, or similar frameworks. With test driven development and automation Strong experience of RESTful and/or gRPC web services with JSON, Protobuf, Open API Knowledge and/or experience with API Gateway integration Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration. Experience with implementing and deploying microservices on GCP or similar cloud hosting platform. Experience in Message oriented middleware technologies – Kafka or Pub/Sub or similar technology. Experience in implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns - using modern and legacy protocols. Experience with automation tools and frameworks - application, infrastructure, and data Knowledge or experience with BIAN, and other banking standards such as ISO200022 Deep empathy for business solutions and engineering process to be pragmatic, mindset to challenge status quo and aptitude, tenacity & resilience to drive the change. Professional certifications in architecture(TOGAF), cloud(GCP) and engineering. Appreciation and strong understanding of global delivery model. Experience of working in large enterprises on medium to large size and complexity program of work.