Solution Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
Job Summary
Job Description About the role We’re creating exciting opportunities within the Term Lending and Overdraft Lab to improve customer experiences for our Commercial Banking clients for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals to join us on this journey. Working alongside our partners in the Commercial Bank will put you at the heart of the digitisation agenda for both clients and colleagues. We’re looking for someone who is passionate, inspiring and customer-obsessed, ensuring that the team are always focused on the priorities that will deliver the best outcomes for our customers and colleagues. We're hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success. Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge. What will I be responsible for? Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy where we are making it simpler, safer, faster and more sustainable for clients to borrow through their channel of choice. Creating 'whenever, wherever' optionality through on and off bank routes. One of our main challenges is to digitise our client and colleague experience and you’ll play a key part in achieving that. What you’ll do Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams. Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback. Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises. Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture. Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers. Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities. Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms. Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary. What you’ll need Are experienced working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams. Are excited at the prospect of changing culture by inspiring change through new insights with teams
Key Responsibilities
- Are experienced working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
- Are excited at the prospect of changing culture by inspiring change through new insights with teams or like-minded people, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions.
- Have experiences in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test-Driven Development.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns.
- Have experience in defining and/or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture, Emergent & Intentional architecture techniques.
- Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or tackle business problems.
- Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
- Familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.
- Have an ability to understand how and where third-party products could be deployed, including solid understanding of vendor evaluation and selection processes & best practises.
- Prior experience in Mobile native, Cross platform/Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.