Solution Architect
Location: Northampton or Knutsford
Duration: end of December
IR35 status: Mandated PAYE

We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require a Solution Architect to join them on a major banking project that's based in either Northampton or Knutsford.

Job description:
Good To have skill - TOGAF and specifically the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) provide very good guidelines and best practices to architects, implement architectures within organizations."Requirements Management" circle at the center of the ADM graphic, the ADM is continuously driven by the requirements management process.
Architecture Development Cycle

Need associate with prior exp in Cards and Payments domain knowledge. of cards issuance and authorization journeys
Good to have banking and Cards secured lending work exp
Cards and Loans collections and recoveries - Work ex required
Migration Experience from Legacy to cloud is an added advantage
Leading architectural design within a business area that has true customer and colleague impacts
Creating an architectural vision in keeping with the business providing a technical solution for customer and colleagues
Owning the technical solution, providing an end to end assurance that satisfies business needs & creating Scalable solutions
Acting as SME to whom that business area trusts to realize their aspirations as to how they can best drive their business forward in helping our customers
Challenging the status quo; things don't change by themselves, so new thinking is welcomed and applauded
Providing a fresh perspective that not only protects our brand but also re-energises Barclays as a bank with technology at its heart
Continuously collaborating with a team of like-minded architects, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions for the business areas

What We're Looking For
Evidence of leadership over a team of architects, providing direction and delivering architectural solutions
Track record of managing large scale changes & delivering effective solutions
Managing stakeholder relationships at CTO as well as CIO level
Solid understanding of Domain Driven Design methodology combined with Cards & Payment Domain

Desired skills
Product Processing - Specialised/Deeper financial services product/business/process knowledge.
Integration - Specialised/Deeper knowledge in Integration patterns especially in a Cloud Native, Streaming, Domain Driven Design world.
Cloud - Specialised/Deeper knowledge in AWS Stack.
Data - Specialised/Deeper knowledge in Data Platforms especially in a Cloud Native, Streaming, Domain Driven Design world.
Digital Servicing - Knowledge and Experience in architecting Digital Journey (customer/colleague) [this is from Tech rather than UI/UI perspective]