Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £47,200 - £67,800 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Hybrid - Glasgow or Gosforth
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Our Team
Within the Mortgage function, we are in a fast-paced area of the business, we are enthusiastic about making things better, we never stop looking at how every bit of how our Mortgage business works. We sweat the small stuff because we know it makes a significant difference for our customers.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Solutions Designer to join our Solutions Design team who will be a key contributor to the architecture used within the bank on the digital platform and will help shape our journey to become a fully digitised bank, while improving our Agile capability.
As an Architect, we are not just looking for a technologist but for someone who also enjoys engaging and collaborating with stakeholders. We believe in collaboration, with Agile at the heart of everything we do.
What you will be doing
- Delivering solutions designs in support of strategic and architectural direction considering best practice and long-term vision.
- Working closely with business and technology colleagues to ensure that design options are effectively evaluated, and robust recommendations made.
- Socialise designs for approval and review.
- Contributing to the domain guild community of interest - inputting where appropriate.
- Reviewing designs produced by others as part of a team effort.
- Ongoing support, direction, and governance of project delivery against agreed designs and assessment of the impact of change requests on the high-level design.
We need you to have
- Experience in Solutions Architecture / Design from financial services organisations across a range of technologies.
- A range of design experience.
- Good influencing and interpersonal skills and credibility with stakeholders.
- Practical experience in Agile development, e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
- A broad range of design experience - the role holder will be an experienced IT professional, typically with a degree and business / IT post-graduate professional education.
- Interest in emerging trends / technology and can guide stakeholders on how they may be used.
It is a bonus if you have but not essential
- Exposure / Interest of Microservice and event driven architectures
- Exposure / Interest of Web app and Mobile App development or Java applications
- Exposure / Interest of working with a Platform as a Service (PaaS), cloud services and APIs
- Broad understanding of information security, and experience of risk-based design
- Understanding of infrastructure limitations and concerns
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.
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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
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.