Solution Architect

Purpose:

Co-ordinates architecture delivery across dependent simultaneous parallel streams of architecture delivery – often coordinating delivery with 5-15 architects.

The Architect defines the end to end technical architecture to support the delivery of investment slate, guiding and influencing business delivery and ensuring alignment to target state technology.

Capabilities, Experience & Qualification Requirements:

Essential capabilities (core)

Decision Quality, Strategic Mindset Situational Adaptability Self-awareness Courage Ensures Accountability

Other capabilities (technical)

Strong business acumen and engagement skills to influence business strategy to help shape, triage, prioritise business outcomes and develop roadmaps for the business unit/ domains.

Proven experience strong business engagement, influencing skills with the ability to navigate complex topics with fact based analysis.

Understand the trade-offs involved in technology change while simultaneously delivering business benefit. Requires commercial acumen, business alignment and ability to negotiate.

Excellent stakeholder management skills, very proactive in building effective working relationships across business and technology.

Experience in dealing with cloud architecture.

Experience

15+ years of Technology Experience.

5+ Domain expertise in cards acquiring, especially around: Transaction switching; Point of Sale terminal processing; eCommerce payment gateways; Merchant services; Clearing & settlement; Disputes & Chargebacks; General ledger management; Digital customer communications, eStatements, notifications, etc.

Qualification Requirements

Degree in Computer Science / information systems or equivalent technical qualification

Architecture or technology related certifications / cloud will be an advantage

Business acumen in banking / financial services industry will be an advantage

Key Accountabilities:

Co-ordinates architects and senior architects to

Provide technical direction and leadership to the architecture team, across the technology lifecycle, creating and maintaining the Target State Architecture for each capability within the domain and mapping all components to the asset management system

Align application roadmap to NAB technology strategy and architectural principles/patterns

Establish the current state, target state architecture positions for the domain. Ensure asset lifecycle is maintained for every component within the domain boundary

Perform architecture optimisation, scaled modelling, various forms of walkthroughs and design reviews

Drives the service feature backlog grooming and raises features, epics and stories as suited for delivery and providing architecture input into the prioritisation of backlog items. Ensure capabilities external to the service are also identified as dependencies where appropriate

Create impact analysis of functional and non functional requirements and constraints on the business roadmap in the current business and technology environments including the regulatory impacts and risks.

Make and document architectural decisions to satisfy regulatory and compliance requirements for the domain.

Validate design artefacts for completeness, ensuring testability to enable effective change management of assets within the domain.

Assist Software Development Engineers to proactively identify issues, performs problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.

Support “You build it, you run it” by participating in service production releases