Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles : engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.
Job Description
Join us as a Lead Solution Architect in Payments Technology
- This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to help us define the high level technical architecture and design that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
- You'll influence the definition and communication of a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
- Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank
- We're offering this role at director level
What you'll do
You'll be collaborating with platform and domain teams to architect and deliver solutions. Together, you'll elaborate on the solution and its interfaces, validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and develop a pipeline of features and improvements to allow frequent and incremental delivery of customer value.
On top of this, you'll be :
Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution designWorking in Payments Technology with stakeholders and product owners to develop payments solutionsLeading in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architectureWorking closely with engineers and other architecture disciplines within Payments spanning the SDLCPromoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedbackWorking with Payment Technology vendors on integration designs and patterns and ISO20022Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trendsThe skills you'll need
You'll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, and in business data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You'll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.
You'll need experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture. We'll also look for knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
In addition, you'll bring :
Knowledge of Payment schemes and the latest industry trends and regulationsExperience of real time Payment processing approaches and their applicationExperience with Payments data models and key data relationshipsKnowledge of Payment processing functional architecture, the payments processA background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domainExperience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approachesThe ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleaguesSkills Required
Togaf, archimate , Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture