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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Infrastructure Architect

• With your understanding of infrastructure architecture, you’ll define and communicate the infrastructure architecture for both current and target states
• You’ll be making sure infrastructure architecture links to the overall strategy and target architecture, and satisfies the customer, business and technology architecture outcomes
• You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Architect, you’ll be influencing the development of business strategies and architectures across the bank, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. You'll also be defining major components of our target infrastructure architecture and roadmap, making sure that these support the strategic aims and those of its franchises and functions.

You’ll be leading the most significant, complex and technically challenging infrastructure architecture transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains, making sure that their architectural journeys support realisation of the target and their investment portfolios are comprised of programmes of work that move towards the target and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

• Analysing and understanding the business strategy and architectures, identifying capabilities and translating these into architecture outcomes
• Collaborating with engineers to validate the intentional architecture and leveraging your ideas and prototypes to develop architecture and emergent design
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps and outcomes, and using architecture strategies to make sure they align to adjacent and higher level models
• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow the frequent incremental delivery of value
• Assessing portfolio and product backlogs, making sure they adhere to business strategies and architectures, and influencing stakeholders and authorities when needed
• Seeking and relying on continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience of defining business or application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises and knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering. You’ll also have a good understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for actions
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• Knowledge of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

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