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Join us as an Enterprise ArchitectFor someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our businessYou'll be defining the intentional architecture foryour assigned scope in order to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategyWith valuable exposure, youll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bankWhat you'll doAs an Enterprise Architect, youll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your assigned scope. Youll be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.Well look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.As well as this, youll be:Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlogDefining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level modelWorking closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architectureLeading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domainsSeeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical visionThe skills you'll needTo succeed in this role, youll need expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of the remaining disciplines. Youll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.Youll also demonstrate:Good collaboration and stakeholder management skillsExperience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action with a specific Security focusAn understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMateExperience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the marketA background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approachesKnowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering