Job Title: Product Architect
Division: Data, Technology and Innovation
Department: Digital Systems
Salary: National (Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £103,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
Grade: Technical Specialist - Regulatory
Responsibilities
- Produce architectural product solutions including technology and service ensuring solutions meet product objectives in a repeatable and generic fashion and consider capacity management, ITSCM, security and software licensing requirements.
- Identify opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward.
- Shape product roadmaps which identify the scope, prioritisation and timeframes for delivery of capability.
- Provide contributions to the relevant communities of practice through thought leadership, coaching and mentoring to help colleagues grow business, technical and product architect skills across Technology.
- Work on high impact, fast paced initiatives using the latest tools, technologies and training, continually building in demand skills and staying in the profession.
- Collaborate in a friendly, inclusive environment with a genuinely supportive management team, enabling performance at best and growth with confidence.
- Gain real world experience across regulated industries by contributing to meaningful work that safeguards critical services, making a real difference to the lives of millions of people.
Skills Required
- Minimum:
- Proven experience working with Salesforce CRM.
- Experience as a product architect (Software, Data, Application, System or Security) with architectural responsibility for software products.
- Significant experience working through the end to end project and product delivery lifecycle with employees, third party or offshore suppliers following development methodologies (Prince2, Scrum, Agile, DevOps).
- Essential:
- Salesforce proficiency including Salesforce Architect, Developer and Admin certifications with progress toward additional certifications and experience with Salesforce OmniStudio Vlocity.
- Extensive solution architecture background with significant experience in financial services or government regulatory bodies delivering strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans on large scale projects.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate within a product stack while maintaining enterprise architecture adherence, abstracting project specific needs into reusable generic product architectures.
- Formal architecture methodology experience including TOGAF and ITIL certification, practical use of architecture modelling tools such as Erwin and Solidatus and UML proficiency.
- Broad technology knowledge across modern technology trends and industry standards with understanding of IT products as services and best practice application solution and platform architectures.
- Commercially aware with the ability to understand supplier proposals, manage trade offs and promote cost effective architectural solutions.
- Experience managing architectural risk across the full project lifecycle and live run environments ensuring stability, scalability and compliance.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid model: employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation 50% for senior leaders). From September, a minimum of 50% in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
- Non contributory pension (8-12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
- Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
- 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
- A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.