Technical Solution architect in Manchester

As a Technical Solution Architect within Consumer Infrastructure Services, you will help accelerate the delivery of business applications to our strategic cloud platforms, supporting and empowering our business to deliver the very best technical solutions quickly and safely. You’ll be working alongside Solution Architects and Engineering Teams bringing expert knowledge of Infrastructure Architecture to design and deliver Hybrid Cloud solutions across our private and public cloud hosted environments to enable product delivery and transformation.

We’ll look to you to influence and promote collaboration across business platforms and labs on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and business teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and the infrastructure components, validating technology assumptions and helping make complex design decisions. You’ll also provide analysis of options and support the delivery of end-to-end Solution Designs ensuring compliance with the bank’s patterns, standards, and strategy driving automation and repeatability.

What you’ll do:

• Align to a business platform responsible for a banking product or service, where we influence their strategy and direction.
• Own the hybrid cloud design and governance, driving resolution through iteration focusing on resilience, simplicity and sustainability.
• Turn requirements and specifications into hybrid cloud designs; shape key design decisions and iterate ideas as you go.
• Provide consultancy and cost estimates, to ensure your business platform can budget accordingly and make informed strategic decisions.
• Use your experience of leading Suppliers, SMEs and Supply Lines to write work packages that are clear, understood and delivered on time.
• Support the wide function to enable the automation of key infrastructure blueprints and patterns.
• Take a lead in all aspects of infrastructure throughout the delivery lifecycle, including:

• Working with Solution Architects and Engineers to design and deliver hybrid cloud designs.
• Working with labs to formulate plans and understand costs for any technical delivery.
• Engaging suppliers and internal delivery teams to deliver in an agile manner.
• Coordinating build activities with internal or 3rd party service providers.
• Supporting through testing cycles.
• Collaborating with service owners to ensure systems are properly tested and supported following go-live.
• When things go wrong, or requirements change, proactively lead delivery resources to facilitate recovery.

And beyond the technical elements, we are responsible for ensuring that the design is implemented by providing technical leadership in support of projects and initiatives.

The skills you’ll need:

• Experienced in the design/architecture of Hybrid Cloud solutions in an enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.
• Experience of Public & Private Cloud Platforms, concepts and technologies including Azure, GCP and AWS.
• Integration Architecture across private and public cloud platforms.
• Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation.
• Hands-On experience of end-to-end project delivery, working with Agile delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices.
• Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures.
• Ability to provide technical leadership in a complex multi-vendor environment.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues.
• Agile mindset with a key understanding of the values and principles to deliver in an agile working environment.

And what about you?

Whilst skills, knowledge and prior experience are important to us, we want people who are highly motivated, with an inquisitive and curious approach to work. We keep our group values of Keeping it Simple, Making a Difference Together and Putting Customers First at the heart of our ethos, so you’ll be committed to similar values and combine this with a love of learning.

If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!