Solutions Architect

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 thriveWant 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.The RoleWe 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 scopeDrawing 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.Skills & Experience:Experience in designing complex solutionsExperience working with both Commercial-Off-the-Shelf and bespoke solutionsExperience in both greenfield and legacy environments, including decommissioning legacy environmentsStrong stakeholder management and communication, with the ability to influence at all levelsExperience with Cloud-native services & applications (Preferably MS Azure)Experience of distributed, micro-services based or event-driven architecturesGood understanding of software design principles and best practicesExperience with APIs, Integration Patterns and microservicesExperience with .NET, low code and JavaScript technologiesExperience of DevOps technologies and practicesReward: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 employmentFree access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health appFree access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopauseEAP (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 healthCycle to work schemeDiscounts on gym membershipContributory pension scheme & death in serviceYour 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 yearOption to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday schemeDiscounts on gym membership nationwideAccess to discounts on a range of high street and online brandsCommunity support and charitable givingYour 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 successProudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done