Solutions Architect

About the team

If you are interested in creating a new function within a busy IT department that is rising to meet the needs of an evolving post-merger environment then this could be the right role for you. The Solutions Architect is a vital role in the Group, and is responsible for the overall design, to align business goals and needs with IT services, products, software, and infrastructure.

Working alone, across internal teams, or alongside external professional services, the job requires dedication to embracing new technologies and solutions, providing the requirements, documentation, configurations for implementation and future support.

We value diversity highly across all the teams within the group and are keen to interview people from all backgrounds and genders. Even if you don’t hit all of the criteria, we are still keen to hear from you.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to create an overall technical vision for a specific solution to a business problem. You will design, describe, and manage the solution. In many ways, you will build the bridge between a business problem and the technology solution and outlines each of the phases and requirements required to make the solution work. To be successful in this role you will need a specific skillset within the Application domain.

Practicing an Application design philosophy focused on performance, resilience, security, and scalability the Solution Architect will be entrusted to provide strategic solutions based on industry best‑practice principals that ensure strong strategic alignment. To leverage and use technology solutions to enable the organisation's future‑state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organisations targeted outcomes. They facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes.

• Responsible for enhancing and accelerating projects while ensuring the logical and physical architecture for a project aligns with the standards and reference architectures defined by the technical domain and enterprise architects; to deliver the architectural design of technology solutions, the solution architect must utilize knowledge of defined reference architectures, technology trends, and implementation experience in order to translate a business need into a solution blueprint that represents an end‑to‑end technical solution.
• Design and lead the implementation of solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements.
• Take ownership of Application Architecture to support the OSB Group Enterprise Architecture function (utilising LeanIX and other tooling).
• Demonstrate experience using software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, application modelling techniques and application security industry best practices.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, Multi‑tenancy, Virtualisation, Orchestration and Elastic Scalability).
• Provide Architectural oversight for applications or integrations hosted within cloud platforms such as Azure / AWS / SaaS and PaaS platforms.
• Analyse the business‑IT Application environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
• Effective communication skills to articulate complicated application strategies to Management and other senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Dev Ops tool chains and processes.
• As a Subject Matter Expert to the enterprise demonstrate core competencies in application end‑to‑end architecture, networking, provisioning and Management.
• Develop a library of deployable and documented application design patterns based on OSB Group enterprise portfolio as a basis for deploying services to the cloud and on premise.
• Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest application technologies and IT Industry trends.
• Take accountability for the solution design for all portfolio approved projects.
• Responsible for ensuring the High Level Design (HLD)…