Product Architect in Leeds

Division: Data, Technology and Innovation

Department: Digital Systems

Salary: National (Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £103,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

Grade: Technical Specialist

Role Responsibilities

• Produce architectural product solutions including technology and service ensuring solutions meet product objectives in a repeatable and generic fashion and consider capacity management, ITSCM, security and software licensing requirements.
• Identify opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward.
• Shape product roadmaps which identify the scope, prioritisation and timeframes for delivery of capability.
• Provide contributions to the relevant communities of practice through thought leadership, coaching, and mentoring to help colleagues grow business, technical, and product architect skills across Technology.
• Work on high-impact, fast-paced initiatives using the latest tools, technologies, and training, so you can continually build in-demand skills and stay in your profession.
• Collaborate in a friendly, inclusive environment with a genuinely supportive management team, enabling you to perform at your best and grow with confidence.
• Gain real-world experience across regulated industries by contributing to meaningful work that safeguards critical services, making a real difference to the lives of millions of people.

Minimum Skills Required

• Comprehensive experience working with Salesforce CRM.
• Experience as a product architect (i.e. Software, Data, Application, System, or Security) with architectural responsibility for software products.
• Significant experience working through the end-to-end project and product delivery lifecycle with employees, third-party or offshore suppliers following development methodologies (Prince2, Scrum, Agile, DevOps).

Essential

• Salesforce proficiency including Salesforce Architect Developer Admin certifications with progress toward additional certifications and experience with Salesforce OmniStudio Vlocity.
• Extensive solution architecture background with significant experience in financial services or government regulatory bodies delivering strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans on large-scale projects.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate within a product stack while maintaining enterprise architecture adherence abstracting project-specific needs into reusable generic product architectures.
• Formal architecture methodology experience including TOGAF and ITIL certification, practical use of architecture modelling tools such as Erwin and Solidatus, and UML proficiency.
• Broad technology knowledge across modern technology trends and industry standards with understanding of IT products as services and best-practice application solution and platform architectures.
• Commercially aware with the ability to understand supplier proposals, manage trade-offs and promote cost-effective architectural solutions.
• Experience managing architectural risk across the full project lifecycle and live run environments ensuring stability, scalability and compliance.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders).
• Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.