JOB DETAILS
Role Title: Architecture Delivery Lead
Possibility of remote work: Hybrid Model
Contract duration: 12 months
Location: Leeds
Required Core Skills:
Skills Required
- Highly skilled and qualified Architect with senior leadership experience to manage a team of Solution Architects.
- Professional experience in managing Architecture delivery at strategic and complex programme level, ability to track and report within change framework.
- Expert knowledge and understanding of Financial Services, Payments, and Transaction systems architecture, ACI and Oracle are key.
- Great stakeholder management skills, advising senior leaders/decisions makers through to daily communications with colleagues delivering design outputs
What you’ll do
1. Be the lead role across Architecture and Design for our strategic programme – Payments Transformation (Faster Payments inbound/outbound and Reconciliation) and Transaction Monitoring.
2. Lead a team of Solution Architects (various domains) and work alongside wider technical leader to deliver the end-to-end design and implementation of the programme target architecture.
3. Provide skills and knowledge across all domains to support understanding from business process through to technology domains (incl. software, data, integration, and infrastructure)
4. Provide leadership and positive support to colleague across all workstreams, ensuring they can work in an open and honest environment, within an accelerated, complex (stressful at times) environment. Developing better relationships and confidence in the Architecture services provided to the programme and stakeholders within.
5. Responsible for continuous reporting and management of architecture activities, managing fully resourced plans to agreed milestones with project leads, dealing with escalations and issue resolution.
6. Report directs into the Architecture Delivery Senior Manager and representation at delivery review and steering groups as required.
7. Ensure production of high-quality architecture and design artefacts with appropriate governance and traceability across end-to-end architecture and design (held centrally within iServer (Orbus).
8. Support a clear transition to support the downstream success of the IT engineering and delivery teams for build and implementation.