Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.
Job Description
Join us as an Enterprise Architect
- We'll look to you to support the definition, development and implantation of the strategic target architecture and roadmap, aligning them with business strategy and objectives through collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and adherence to governance standards
- You'll be providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices
- With valuable exposure, you'll cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, technology teams, and external partners, to enhance understanding and support for the strategic target architecture
- We're offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you'll support the architecting of customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank's strategic target architecture.
You'll be supporting the development of architecture capability by proactively building personal capability and sharing knowledge, best practices, lessons learned, and participating in communities of practice.
As well as this, you'll be:
- Participating in architecture and design reviews of solution architectures, while adhering to approved architecture standards and principles
- Contributing to shaping and identifying opportunities for simplification and reuse within strategic investment programmes
- Collaborating with business and digital leaders to evolve architectural direction, ensuring that decisions and designs are documented in accordance with organisational standards
- Keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, identifying potential opportunities and threats and raising them with the Architecture Council for further evaluation
- Promoting DevOps practices by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you'll need extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success.
You'll bring experience of defining and developing strategic target architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.
You'll also demonstrate experience of:
- Collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction
- Creating business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives
- Overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance
- Participating in architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards
- Proven people capability development, including mentoring, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices
