Product Architect
Division: Data, Technology and Innovation
Department: Digital Systems
Salary: National (Leeds) £72,100 – £103,000 (based on skills and experience)
Grade: Technical Specialist – Regulatory
Role Responsibilities
- Produce architectural product solutions including technology and service, ensuring solutions meet product objectives in a repeatable and generic fashion and consider capacity management, ITSCM, security and software licensing requirements
- Identify opportunities for product innovation and shape design proposals for taking this forward
- Shape product roadmaps which identify the scope, prioritisation and timeframes for delivery of capability
- Provide contributions to the relevant communities of practice through thought leadership, coaching, and mentoring to help colleagues grow business, technical, and product architect skills across Technology
- Work on high‑impact, fast‑paced initiatives using the latest tools, technologies, and training, so you can continually build in‑demand skills and stay in your profession
- Collaborate in a friendly, inclusive environment with a genuinely supportive management team, enabling you to perform at your best and grow with confidence
- Gain real‑world experience across regulated industries by contributing to meaningful work that safeguards critical services, making a real difference to the lives of millions of people
Qualifications
Minimum requirements
- Proven experience working with Salesforce CRM
- Experience as a product architect (Software, Data, Application, System, or Security) with architectural responsibility for software products
- Significant experience of working through the end‑to‑end project and product delivery lifecycle with employees, third‑party or offshore suppliers following development methodologies (Prince2, Scrum, Agile, DevOps)
Essential skills
- Salesforce proficiency including Salesforce Architect Developer Admin certifications and progress toward additional certifications, and experience with Salesforce OmniStudio Vlocity
- Extensive solution architecture background with significant experience in financial services or government regulatory bodies delivering strategies, roadmaps and architectural delivery plans on large‑scale projects
- Demonstrated ability to innovate within a product stack while maintaining enterprise architecture adherence, abstracting project‑specific needs into reusable generic product architectures
- Formal architecture methodology experience including TOGAF and ITIL certification, practical use of architecture modelling tools such as Erwin and Solidatus and UML proficiency
- Broad technology knowledge across modern technology trends and industry standards with understanding of IT products as services and best‑practice application solution and platform architectures
- Commercially aware with the ability to understand supplier proposals, manage trade‑offs and promote cost‑effective architectural solutions
- Experience managing architectural risk across the full project lifecycle and live run environments ensuring stability, scalability and compliance
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Hybrid model: employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month; expectation of 50% for senior leaders, 60% for Directors and Executive Directors
- Non‑contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
- Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance
- 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
- A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle
Our Values & Culture
Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that is free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
Disability Confident
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and people with disabilities and long‑term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will be considered. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
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