Responsible for Architect Services:

• Assist with defining sustainable solutions & services aligned to customer & business needs in Insurance & Digital Banking space.
• Experience in Banking or Insurance (including Health & Wellness) and in innovative Digital Banking Solutions, Open Banking, Fintech domain is a big plus.
• Support architectural tasks required for assigned projects to deliver the architecture in accordance with Group Channels strategies and methodology.
• Facilitate project architecture reviews at each appropriate stage of the project lifecycle.
• Where appropriate, facilitate Group strategies rather than local strategies and recommend group strategies, where solutions diverge from Group/Regional solutions or approved vendor products, evidence of agreement must exist from Architecture & SWDE EXCO
• Assist in managing application lifetime costs of solutions, facilitate all high impact considerations approvals through correct change control procedures
• Working with the project manager, regularly communicate consistency of architecture direction across projects\initiatives.
• Help manage & escalate architectural risks/issues, to ensure there are no surprises for the Project/Task Manager &/or stakeholder where appropriate
• Where agreed, act as consultant and contributor for architectural tasks throughout the development life cycle.
• Assist in engaging  key stakeholders within SwD Europe, other Regions & Global Businesses/Functions

Where required the personnel will assist with:

• Architectural consultancy presentations
• Architectural Roadmaps
• Architectural strategy reports
• Update Enterprise Architecture databases.