Description:
Specifically focusing on Payments, you will be responsible for understanding future changes to the payments landscape and translating these into the Bank’s IT Strategy and roadmaps. You will have the ability to operate in both agile and waterfall methodologies defining the change needed (in the form of design decisions, project designs, roadmaps and/or technology selection) to meet stated business outcomes and align to the banks IT strategy. Additionally, you will offer forward thinking within the digital space road-mapping the direction of architecture strategies for the Bank.
Key Accountabilities:
- Thought leadership in the treasury and payments spaces, working closely with the Bank treasury and payments stakeholders, to understand the impacts of regulation and payment scheme changes on the Bank’s architecture
- Develop and own the architecture of the treasury and payments domain, via roadmaps and work on associated projects
- Support engineers to design services for our customers and colleagues and deliver our Technology strategy
- Make key architectural decisions impacting individual designs, the wider portfolio or the longer term strategy
- Translate business requirements and strategy into designs and roadmaps which align to the bank’s standard and principles
- Be an active member of the Bank’s architecture community participating in design review and governance processes
- Co-ordinate and direct all IT design activity to ensure the solution is coherent and deliverable
- Lead resources involved in design elements including 3rd parties and other internal bank resources
- Select and propose suitable technologies and manage their approval through bank governance processes
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:
- Experience of working within the banking / payments industry, with a knowledge of the core payment schemes, including BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, Faster Payments etc
- Experience of working in the treasury domain
- Strong consulting and influencing skills, including excellent presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at senior levels, both written and oral, within the business and IT strategy areas.
- A good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and models (e.g. Systems Engineering, TOGAF)
- Experience of projects with significant integration challenges. Deep understanding of integration approaches and technologies
- Extensive experience of at least one technical architecture discipline. Our preference would be application, and some knowledge of data and infrastructure
- Considerable experience in senior roles on major application development or systems integration (e.g. application architect, technical architect, lead designer, lead developer)
- Experience of building applications within a Cloud Infrastructure and a good understanding of Dev ops practices
- Experience of managing and reviewing 3rd party activities including commercials and deliverables