Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: £72,800 to £104,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Remote - With occasional travel to a local hub.
Contract Type: Permanent - Full time
Live to challenge the status quo. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
We have an exciting opportunity for an Architect to join our Solutions Design team who will be a key contributor to the architecture used within the bank on the digital platform and will help shape our journey to become a fully digitised bank, while improving our Agile capability.
As an Architect, we're not just looking for a technologist but for someone who also enjoys engaging and collaborating with stakeholders. We believe in collaboration, with Agile at the heart of everything we do. We aren't perfect (who is?) so we iterate and improve as we go. We are looking for people who can not only help us continue to disrupt the banking sector but also how we become better at what we do!
This is a senior role responsible for technical Solution Design for key changes and overseeing and supporting the work of other Solutions Design staff. In general, designs will involve a wide range of technologies and business areas, but some domain detailed knowledge is expected within the Digital space.
What you’ll be doing
- Deliver high level designs in support of strategic and architectural direction considering best practice and long-term vision.
- Work closely with business and technology colleagues to ensure that design options are effectively evaluated, and robust recommendations made.
- Socialise designs for approval and review and provide feedback on designs produced by others.
- Contribute to the domain guild community of interest - inputting where appropriate.
- Review designs produced by others.
- Co-ordinate activities of others within the Solutions and Infrastructure Design teams to support the bank's business projects.
- On occasion taking responsibility for the direction of detailed design resources in significant projects or programmes.
- Ongoing support, direction, and governance of project delivery against agreed designs and assessment of the impact of change requests on the high-level design.
We need you to have
- Experience in Solutions Architecture / Design from financial services organisations across a range of technologies.
- Knowledge working with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services or AWS.
- Exposure to Microservice and event driven architectures & Web app / Mobile App development or Java applications.
- Experience of working with a Platform as a Service (PaaS), cloud services and APIs & A range of design experience.
- Very good influencing and interpersonal skills and credibility with stakeholders.
- Interest, drive and proactivity to lead improvements to the design service of the team.
- A broad range of design experience - the role holder will be an experienced IT professional, typically with a degree and business / IT post-graduate professional education, with experience of influencing at a senior level.
- Interest in emerging trends / technology and can guide stakeholders on how they may be used.
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
- Experience of Amazon Connect.
- Practical experience in Agile development, eg: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
- Working with third part delivery partners.
- Prepared to self-learn a new technology in short timescales, to assess the worth of technology platforms.
- Broad understanding of information security, and experience of risk-based design.
- Understanding of infrastructure limitations and concerns.
Red Hot Rewards
- Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
- Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
- 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
- Market-leading pension.
- Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
- Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.
