Solution Architect

We are seeking motivated Solution Architect to join the Enterprise Strategy and Architecture team at National Australia Bank. As a Solution Architect, you need to define 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.

You are an experienced Solution Architect who provides technical direction and leadership for the technology assers within the domain, across the technology lifecycle, maintaining and target state Architecture and Roadmap, informing the service backlog and sequencing.

In addition to your strong technical capability, you will be a proven team player, independent thinker and have a collaborative attitude towards your work and colleagues. 

Lead the technical direction-setting for a story / epic / feature.

Deliver an end-to-end technical outcome for initiatives by orchestrating delivery across one or more domains. They identify service impacts. They understand how new and existing target states will be consumed to deliver and initiative. They work to shape and sequence initiative features on service backlogs.

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 assest management system.

Align application roadmap to technology stratedy and architectural principles / patterns.

Perform architecture optimidation, scaled moelling, various forms of walkthroughs design reviews 

Drive 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 a dependencies where appropriate.

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

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

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

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

Experience of 10+ years in Technology generally.

Experience of 2+ years in Architecture of Design.

Experience with developing or running agile practices in large organisations with regulatory and legacy constraints.

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

Ability to lead and maintain backlog of business outcomes portfolio view of the business domain

Experience in working in a scale agile structure to help coordinate work to a persistent team of solution architects. 

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

Understand the trade-off involved in technology change while simultaneously delivering businness benefit.

Require commercial acumen, business alignment and ability to negotiate.

Degree in Computer Science / information system or quivalent technical qualification

Architecture or technology related ceritifications / cloud will be an advantage

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

Very competitive remuneration package

Generous private family healthcare for yourself and two family members

A solid team behind you - great people who love what they do

The pleasant, enthusiastic, international work environment

Opportunity for traveling & training in Australia

A brand new & state of the art Agile office

Latest technologies, flexible working hours

A promising training and career path

Fun team activities & outing

English learning with native English teachers

And many more to come.

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