Bank Of America Solution Design Architect 

United Kingdom, England, Chester 

567740849

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and articulate their needs and problem statements.
• Understanding the product vision and roadmap and help project in PI Planning.
• Assess the scope of change and impact to technology and stakeholders.
• Liaise between the business units, technology teams, delivery, and support teams to arrive at optimal solutions based on scope.
• Collaborating with multiple stakeholder for defining the E2E solution.
• Developing High Level/E2E Solution Design for GTST EMEA projects.
• Facilitate walkthroughs for requirement and solution assessments.
• Supporting the delivery teams throughout the agile project lifecycle
• Performing initial engagement with the business to determine concept designs and project estimates and provide technology guidance.
• Determining the impact of change initiated in other technology teams on the EMEA Treasury environment (technology, people, process)
• Reviewing project designs for adherence to the organisation design standards and technology stack like Cloud, security, change governance.
• Set the technology strategy (technology and design standards) for the department.
• Working closely with the enterprise architecture team to build out the treasury platform.
• Support the build out of the Global Corporate and Investment Banking Technology strategy through development of blueprints in the treasury space.
• Ensuring timely quality deliverables.
• Regular status reporting to Senior Management in technology and the business

What we are looking for:

• Has experience in requirements/Solution elicitation techniques such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process flows, use cases.
• Has experience analysing and documenting requirements/designs using an agile methodology (Epics and Stories)
• Has experience working with business and technology teams to deliver solutions in a banking environment.
• Have led application design for multiple solutions across technology platforms
• Has experience of developing solutions in a banking environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with both Business and technology teams.
• Good technical and architecture knowledge.
• Has extensive technical and data analysis experience working with a variety of architectures.
• Has driven the selection of vendor packages and worked closely with the vendor to integrate the packages into the technology environment.
• Have a proven record of providing technology leadership to onshore and offshore development teams..

Skills that will help:

• Knowledge of,
• Payments, such as SWIFT, ACH, CHAPS, Faster Payments, SEPA, TARGET2, ISO 20022
• Demand Deposit Accounting,
• Treasury and Cash Management Systems,
• Banking Regulations, such as OFAC, FTR, PSD2, AML,
• Trade Finance and Loans
• Experience with Agile project methodologies
• TOGAF certification

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.