Day Rate: 625

Main Duties:

• Working closely with Business and Technology colleagues to ensure that design options are effectively evaluated and that robust recommendations are made.
• Ongoing governance of project delivery against agreed designs and assessment of the impact of change requests on the high-level design
• Running design forums and workshops with developer, operational and business colleagues. Third party vendors will often be involved as well.
• Distribution of designs for approval and presentation of said designs at formal clinics
• Peer review of designs produced by colleagues.
• Involvement in the technical communities of interest to support and enhance Virgin Money software development policies and standards.
• Provision of Solution Design estimates for input to Business Cases
• Involvement in internal improvement initiatives to develop the overall capability of the Solutions Design competency.
• Working alongside Lead Solution Architects and with other Architects within the Solutions Architecture competency to support the bank's business projects.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience of a range of technologies including, for example, Messaging & Middleware, Microservices, Cloud and Data Streaming
• Experience and expertise in solution architecture
• Experience of working in waterfall and agile environments during the Software Development Life Cycle
• Understanding and experience of design governance
• Ability to work with both Business and Technology stakeholders to build personal credibility in shaping of solutions to business problems
• Ability to manage and resolve design risks and issues
• The ability to influence and challenge at a senior level to get the best outcome

Desirable Skills:

• Support planning - help drive the scope and delivery shape and schedule as well design
• Experience working effectively with other Change and Technology professionals
• Experience in the following areas of business: Financial Fraud and AML; Debit & Credit Cards; ATM & POS; Payments (FPS, SWIFT, CHAPS, BACS); Core banking processing; Treasury Systems