Team Manager, Solution Architecture
Job Description
* Working with the line of business IT heads to determine their needs for allocation of a solutions architect from the central team. Assigning appropriate resource from the pool of centrally managed solutions architects
* Day to day management, including staff budget and workload management of the pool of solutions architects
* Holding line of business IT managers accountable for the solutions architectures not developed by the Architecture team and presented as a part of the gating process. Ensuring a fit between these and then overall strategy
* Working with the central enterprise architecture team to ensure that the solutions architecture documentation deliverables are fit for purpose within a business context. Attending design and documentation reviews as required.
* Defining best practice in terms of solutions architectural specification within the bank - selling this to the line of business IT heads and then assisting in its implementation. Subsequent review and monitoring of use and compliance with best practice guidance and standards set.
* Acting as point of liaison with the central enterprise services team to ensure a coherent fit between the bank and the overall enterprise strategy on solutions architecture specification
* Work with your peers within the Architecture team to ensure that solutions proposed are conformant with best practice within each of their respective areas - enterprise architecture, process automation, data architecture etc.
Person Specification
* Over 10 years experience in software development and architecture
* Expert knowledge of the software development process: SDLC and Testing
* Must have expert level knowledge of a modern programming environment (java, .Net, functional programming or similar)
* Must have designed several large scale distributed systems used for business critical processes.
* Capital Markets experience is mandatory
* Strong communication skills and be comfortable communicating across teams, to front office and operations staff, and to very senior managers on both the technology and business side.
* Excellent organizational and documentation skills, and be able to easily architectures and plans to a spread of different organisational levels. Experience with one or more formally defined notational conventions
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