Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

Join us as a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead. For someone with experience in defining Enterprise architecture, strategy and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business.

You will own and drive the full end-to-end business leading technology strategy and architecture for Financial Crime including functional, platform, data, hosting with associated roadmaps. You will ensure alignment with the bank’s simplification strategy and co-create architectural roadmaps via active engagements with functions and franchises. You will ensure our architecture direction improves quality, accelerates delivery of value to customers and drives innovation, while keeping our services and applications safe and secure.

With valuable exposure, you will be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions to create long term value for the bank.

What you will do:

• Define and communicate the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope.
• Ensure the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.
• Influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.
• Drive effective architecture governance and cadence with business colleagues to drive the continual evolution of the strategy and architecture in alignment with our business strategy.
• Translate architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog.
• Define, create and maintain architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level models.
• Work closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture.
• Lead complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains.
• Seek out and utilise continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision.

The skills you will need:

• Expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with an in-depth knowledge of the remaining disciplines.
• Ideally have Financial Crime, Fraud or similar business, data, technology experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies, and experience of working in an Agile team.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action.
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate.
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market.
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches.
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering.