Solution Design Architect

Job Description:

Job Title: Solution Design Architect

Corporate Title: Up to Vice President

Location:  Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

The Team:

GCIBT EMEA is looking for a Solution Design Architect to join an existing analysis and design team located in the UK.  The team work with business and technology partners to deliver projects covering Payments, Accounting, Liquidity, Credit, Loans, and Regulatory change, spanning EMEA, APAC, Canada and LATAM regions.

Role Description:

The Solution design Architect will be responsible for the earlier engagement with the business, supporting the business analysis, documenting conceptual solutions and defining high level estimates.  The Solution Design Archiect will be responsible for developing the High Level Design include the functional requirements and then supporting the technology teams as the solutions are develop and tested.  They will be expected to influence senior leaders in the business and technology and provide guidance to junior team members.

The functional designer will have excellent treasury business knowledge and experience of designing solutions using multiple technologies.  They will be experienced at working with vendors and technically leading offshore team members.  They will be expected to help set the process and standards for the design function and supporting continual improvement.

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

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

•           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.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

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