Solutions Architect

Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £68,000 - £90,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits

Get out of your comfort zone. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team
We’re on the lookout for an enthusiastic and skilled Solution Architect to join our dynamic Enterprise Systems team. We're a dedicated group with a singular focus: delivering cutting-edge technology to empower our colleagues to deliver top-notch customer service at lightning speed. In this role, you will be leading modernisations and solutions and work with enterprise architecture, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure and efficient.

You would work across projects like Cloud migration using Pega, Migration to Power Automate Desktop, building new capabilities using Microsoft Dynamics. If you are passionate about spearheading the delivery of top-notch solutions, this role might be the perfect fit for you!

What you’ll be doing
• Design and support delivery of robust system solutions, aligning them with business needs and technology strategy
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand requirements and design solutions including stakeholders in security, networks, infrastructure teams
• Review technical architecture for integration with other applications and components within Virgin Money and third parties as applicable
• Design architectures that are secure, scalable and optimised for performance
• Providing technical leadership and support to software development team
• Work with relevant areas (e.g. Devops, Release Management, QA) to enable faster release and deployment cycles
• Investigating and analysing current systems in use and recommending ways to improve efficiencies
• Researching the latest technologies
• Assess business impact of certain technical choices
• Monitor progress of ongoing projects and initiatives from a solutions perspective
• Document all architectural designs and analysis in a comprehensive manner for future reference

We need you to have
• Experience in a solution architect role, with the ability to lead the strategic and technical
• Experience in project management and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge of selected coding languages (e.g. JavaScript, Java)
• Experience in cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Problem solving aptitude
• Degree in Software engineering

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Cloud certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus.
• Experience in projects migrating on-premises workloads to Cloud (laaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Experience working in Financial Services or Other regulated market sector
• Deep technical knowledge and demonstrable understanding across Data Centres & Cloud
• Experience analysing hardware and software

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.