Solution Architect Job in Nationwide

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Solution Architect Job in Nationwide

Job Description
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
An exciting opportunity for a Solutions Architect to join a growing Technology and Data team
The Architecture team are currently working on some fantastic projects and are looking for someone who is pro-active, creative, self-motivated, who loves to deliver business success and can drive the technology solutions forward supporting our highly ambitious and exciting plans.
This role is pivotal in engaging with delivery teams and leveraging Agile development methodologies, whilst effectively documenting and communicating technical solutions. Working in a highly empowered environment, your input and expertise will be valued, as you own the solutions from inception to delivery, involving enterprise-class internal platforms, COTS (Customisable Off the Shelf) products and cloud services, whilst collaborating with Programme and Engineering teams and third parties.
You’ll be working closely with business stakeholders at all levels and translating business objectives into operational, functional and technical solutions and supporting the Head of Architecture through recommendations and enabling the governance of internal and external solutions.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to:
• Engage with senior stakeholders, translating business goals to deliverable solutions and outcomes.
• Have experience of the full SDLC process, ideally within regulated and consumer-focused industries at volume. It’s likely you’ve worked as a software engineer earlier in your career.
• Create and present Architecture to formal governance boards. • Integrate internal and external systems.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplined teams remotely.
Skills, knowledge & experience
• Knowledge of analysis, design and modelling techniques, ideally within a formalised framework (TOGAF, Zachman etc).
• Experience in creating target architectures and transition states based on desired business outcomes, delivering solutions from inception through to implementation.
• Experience of defining technical solutions including integration with enterprise class COTS (ERP, CRM etc) and cloud services.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to convey technical terms to a non-technical audience.
• Experience of working for high-volume, data-driven organisations.
• Experience of architecting within Agile delivery methods e.g. scaled Agile or scrum.
• Understanding of retail insurance business would be advantageous.
• Experience of technical product delivery within Microsoft technical stack would be advantageous.
• An interest and exposure in emerging and maturing technologies (IOT, Blockchain, RPA, AI, etc.)

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Nationwide
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
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Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £65000 – £84000/annum 10% * 15% Bonus
Benefits: 10% * 15% Bonus