Platform Architect (Solutions)

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Accountable for ensuring platform architecture reflects the needs of their products and associated enterprise wide requirements, and working closely with the GBGF CIO architecture function and the solution architects to ensure alignment.
• Responsible for creating platform roadmaps & ensuring cost effective, compliant and appropriate architectures are developed.
• Ensure the solution designs created by solution architects are compliant with the platform architecture and roadmap.
• Ensure design of products and services meet mandatory and regulatory compliance requirements
• Accountable for ensuring that operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues etc) are addressed in the product architecture and fed into the backlog of change on an ongoing and regular basis.
• Working with the Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, Solutions Architect and Technical Leads to turn overall business requirements into more detailed stories which are progressed by the teams.