Senior Solution Architect

Business Unit: COO Core Banking Product & Channels
Salary range: 72800 to 91000 per annum DOE
Location: Hybrid with occasional travel to a UK Virgin Money Hub location when required
Contract type: Permanent

Our Team

Working in Core Banking is a big deal. We sit at the heart of Virgin Money making sure the systems that power our Current Account and Savings products are always available stable and ready to support our customers. As part of Products & Channels we are accountable for the reliability resilience and change delivery of the applications that run on our core accountprocessing and mainframebased platforms.

Youll play an important role in shaping how we run maintain and evolve these platforms to meet customer needs support regulatory change and enable the wider business strategy. The work we do ensures Virgin Money can serve millions of customers every day with accuracy safety and confidence.

The Core Banking Team is also integral to the success of the Nationwide Building Society integration. Were responsible for supporting the safe and seamless migration of Virgin Moneys Current Account and Savings customers onto NBS target systems a major programme that requires precision deep technical knowledge and strong partnership across the organisation. Our work ensures customers continue to access their money without disruption throughout this transition.

Joining the team means being part of a highperforming and trusted group that takes pride in doing the difficult things exceptionally well: safeguarding the stability of our core systems delivering complex change and underpinning many of the most critical services Virgin Money provides.

Whatyoullbe doing

• Providing senior technical leadership across Core Banking acting as one of the most experienced solution architects supporting our core accountprocessing and mainframebased platforms.
• Leading the architectural direction for the Current Account and Savings migration into Nationwide. Youll ensure technical strategy solution alignment and design governance across multiple delivery teams while keeping the migration safe accurate and in line with regulatory expectations and NBS target state.
• Guiding coaching and mentoring Solution Architect colleagues and supporting capability development across the wider architecture community.
• Working closely with Product Engineering Operations and Programme teams to understand requirements and priorities helping ensure solution designs balance business outcomes technical integrity and platform reliability.
• Providing clear and authoritative technical advice to Project Managers Technical Leads and senior stakeholders to support effective planning sequencing and dependency management.
• Developing highquality highlevel designs that follow Group technical standards architectural principles and governance frameworks and ensuring they remain robust secure scalable and traceable.
• Owning designs throughout the delivery lifecycle including assessing change requests and confirming technical impacts as delivery evolves.
• Leading design workshops and forums that bring together technical leads project teams thirdparty suppliers and business SMEs to drive clarity and credible decisionmaking.
• Influencing architectural decisions across complex multisystem journeys ensuring alignment across platforms and coherent endtoend customer outcomes especially where integration with NBS Payments Channels or wider Group systems is required.
• Acting as a key architectural representative for Core Banking in governance forums risk assessments migration readiness checkpoints and technical review boards.
• Contributing to Group architecture communities of practice and helping strengthen design standards share patterns and build capability across the organisation.
• Leading internal improvement initiatives to enhance how we design document govern and deliver technical solutions so that Core Banking continues to support the organisations needs.

We need you to have

• Handson experience as a Solution Architect ideally in complex highly integrated enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of Core Banking concepts and platforms including account processing engines customer ledgers batch processing and highvolume transaction systems.
• A proven ability to design endtoend enterprise solutions with a clear understanding of integration patterns data flows and operational considerations.
• Adept in providing senior technical leadership influencing architectural direction and guiding colleagues without direct line management authority.
• Experience working in regulated financial services with a strong grasp of resilience compliance risk and audit requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues to nontechnical audiences.
• Strong governance and design assurance experience ensuring solutions follow Group architectural standards and remain aligned throughout delivery.
• Confidence leading technical workshops and crossfunctional design forums to drive clarity alignment and effective decisionmaking.

Itsa bonus if you have but not essential

• Ability to contribute in largescale transformation migration or platform consolidation programmes ideally involving customer or product migrations.
• Knowledge of debit card processing flows including authorisation settlement and lifecycle events and how these interact with Core Banking platforms.

The extras youll get:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing over time to 30. Plus an option to buy more giving you even more choice.
• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our flexible benefits scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

If were lucky to receive a lot of interest we may close the advert early. Please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.

Say hello to Virgin Money

Virgin Money is so much more than just a bank. As part of theNationwide grouptogether were the UKs first full-service mutual bank serving millions of retail and business customers and all driven by our purpose; Banking but fairer more rewarding and for the good of society. With us youll be part of an organisation uniquely positioned to make a difference to the lives of customers communities and broader society and embark on a collaborative customer obsessed and fun-filled career journey. Embrace the weekdays enjoy fantastic perks and make a meaningful positive difference. Time to discover what it means to be part of the first mutual full-service banking provider.

Be yourself at Virgin Money

At Virgin Money we celebrate everyone. We have fun think big and relentlessly include each other all in pursuit of our purpose: Banking but fairer more rewarding and for the good of society.Were committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader were committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application contact our Talent Acquisition team

Please note: If we receive a high volume of eligible applications we may need to prioritise candidates whose skills and experience most closely align with the role while still ensuring fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.