NatWest Group Hiring for Java Solution Architect at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From home working to job sharing, visit the remote and flexible working page on our website to find out more. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Join us as a Java Solution Architect

• This is a great opportunity to help us define the high level technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
• You’ll help define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
• Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank

What you’ll do

We’ll look to you collaborate across platform and domain teams to support the solution delivery. Working closely with these teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and supporting the continuous delivery pipeline. You’ll also provide analysis of options and help to deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as assisting with producing designs for features, in line with the architecture, that allow frequent incremental delivery of customer value. On top of this, you’ll be:

• Analysing technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
• Contributing to the activities to shape requirements, and validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture
• Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
• Analysing potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends by using industry thinking and best practice

The skills you’ll need

With seven years’ experience in Java development, you’ll be comfortable developing miscroservices and application designs in either a IaaS, PaaS, CaaS or SaaS environment. You’ll also bring awareness of application, business, data or infrastructure architecture and a basic understanding of the common industry architecture frameworks. On top of this, you’ll bring:

• Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture
• A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain
• Knowledge of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts
• An understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies and experience of working in Agile teams