Solution Architect

Company Description

Shawbrook is a new type of specialist financial services company, combining the relentless focus on customer service and innovation you would expect from a fintech with the expertise and certainty of a bank. Shawbrook is driven by a purpose to solve complex problems that unlock opportunity for its rapidly growing customer base of over 300,000 UK consumers and businesses.

Our success would not have been possible without our Team. Our people differentiate us from the competition through their deep sector knowledge, they are the life force of our business.

Join Shawbrook because you:

• Want to help us deepen our industry sector knowledge, combining technology alongside the best banking brains.
• Want to build a bank for the future and be part of our digital transformation journey that will enable customers & businesses to thrive
• Want to continue to grow professionally. We encourage you to grow and be the best version of yourself.
• Care about sustainability? We want to be better for our people, environment and society.
• Bring passion and enjoyment to your work. You’ll work hard but you’ll have fun too.

Job Description

Purpose & Scope of role

We are looking for a talented and driven Solutions Architect with generalist knowledge across multiple architecture domains to help us expand our expertise in the architecture space as Shawbrook’s technology footprint continues to grow.

Working alongside the Guild Leads and Tech Leads within the Engineering function, you will offer expertise to help design and guide the implementation of new technology solutions. You will bring broad knowledge across multiple disciplines to ensure robust technology selections and designs, that enable Shawbrook to follow cutting edge trends and best practices.

We are looking for a tech driven and innovative team player, able to develop knowledge and skills to implement and run new technologies across a range of key projects and initiatives for the bank. Collaborating with a range of talented teams across the bank, you’ll work closely with product teams, software engineers and delivery teams to ensure that quality standards are met, and design decisions are made with best practice in mind.

Responsibilities:

What you’ll be doing:

• Whilst not creating production code, you will be contributing to proof of concept and tech prototypes, with a keen understanding of engineering.
• Designing solution architectures against initiative scope
• Drawing up HLD architectures and performing options analyses to meet the requirements of the business, particularly where new technologies or approaches are needed.
• Assessing vendor and build options as appropriate.
• Reviewing and elaborating on initiative scope, challenging as appropriate.
• Identifying key risks at design-time, ensuring these are managed and aligned to the bank’s risk appetite.
• Contributing to evolving our Technology Standards and Reference Design Patterns.
• Making constructive contributions to the Technology Advisory Forum.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• Experience in designing complex solutions
• Experience working with both Commercial-Off-the-Shelf and bespoke solutions
• Experience in both greenfield and legacy environments, including decommissioning legacy environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Experience with Cloud-native services & applications (Preferably MS Azure)
• Experience of distributed, micro-services based or event-driven architectures
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Experience with APIs, Integration Patterns and microservices
• Experience with .NET, low code and JavaScript technologies
• Experience of DevOps technologies and practices

Education/Professional Qualifications
Shawbrook is committed to providing opportunities to all candidates, and understand that not all candidates may possess a qualification or education aligned to the role. We will assess each candidate on their individual experience and skills, and not solely on level of education.

Additional Information

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done