Senior Solution Architect

What is the opportunity?

At Bank of Ireland, Solution Architecture plays a vital role in our journey to lead the banking industry in building a digital first environment.

We are seeking a dedicated and driven Senior Solution Architect to join us on this journey in the Fraud Monitoring Domain. The successful candidate will work across a range of technologies both on premise and cloud as well as working with vendors providing specialist Fraud monitoring and open banking capabilities.

We recognise our people as our greatest asset, and we strive to nurture your personal development and career growth

In this Role, you will:

Be a key member of the IT Engineering & Delivery Solution Design team and will work closely with other Senior Technical/Solutions Architects on principles, standards, and roadmaps. You will contribute to continuous improvements of the wider Technology team.

- Design end-to-end solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation.
- Work with the business and projects to help define and refine their requirements.
- Contributor to overall solution planning, providing input into the estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks, issues, and assumptions.
- Produce required design artefacts, independently or as part of a team.
- Define and derive standard processes and contribute to the development of the overall architecture practice.
- Present to the Bank's Architecture Review Board when vital.
- Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction.
- Support delivery leadership to break down the solution so that it can be delivered incrementally.
- Support and collaborate with other engineering functions, including integration and data factories, information security, build, test and release.
- Review requirements and supervise change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose.

What will make you stand out?

You are an expert solution architect in designing solutions for large-scale projects and programmes working in sophisticated, multi-vendor change delivery organisations and have experience in Fraud Monitoring and open banking solutions. You have the ability to influence, design and deliver complex solutions in partnership with diverse partners for internal and external customers.

You have a broad knowledge of technologies across all domains including information, application, infrastructure, security, and cloud with technical depth in at least one domain.

Desirable Experience

- Fraud Monitoring Engines - Featurespace products (ARIC) or other fraud monitoring engines as well as Fraud business domain knowledge and technologies
- Open Banking experience
- REST API design / SOAP services / Mulesoft Anypoint Platform / Swagger or RAML definitions / WebSphere MQ or Kafka
- API security standards such as mutual authentication and OAuth and OIDC
- IBM MQ /Message Broker/ sFTP & Connect:Direct
- Payment domain knowledge - cross border, domestic payments, SWIFT messages, ISO20022, SEPA
- Database technologies: MongoDB / SQL Server / PostgreSQL.
- Exposure to technologies such as ElasticSearch, ELK, ServiceNow, Control-M, Application and service monitoring tools
- IASA CITA-F / CITA-A / CITA-P or TOGAF Certification

Essential Qualifications:

- There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team:

Group Technology & Customer Solutions (GTCS) comprises of Group IT & Procurement, Group Change, Enterprise Portfolio Office, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Simplification, Group Payments & Business Continuity Management, Group Data & Analytics Office, Group Information Security, GTCS Risk & Compliance.

The Engineering function offers phenomenal prospects for career progression within the Bank along with opportunities to build and grow highly sought-after technical skills and capabilities.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career

Key Competencies

- Customer Focused - Leader
- One Group, one team - Leader
- Agile - Leader
- Accountable - Leader
- Manage Risk - Leader

We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

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