Domain Architect, Banking & Lending

Closing date for applications: 26/05/2026

Location Bristol, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day\-to\-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
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In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.

So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.

Job description
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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as Domain Architect in Banking \& Lending

• We’ll look to you to support the definition of strategic target architectures and roadmaps, focusing on specific components and solutions


• You'll be providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices


• Gain valuable exposure as you build relationships with stakeholders such as business partners, change management specialists, architects and engineers to ensure alignment and drive the implementation of architectural best practices for the Private Banking Products \& Services division within Private Banking \& Wealth Management

As a Domain Architect, you’ll support the architecting of customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end to end client journeys, digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architecture.

You’ll be contributing to the development of architecture capabilities by proactively building personal capability and sharing knowledge, best practices, lessons learned, and participating in communities of practice.

As well as this, you’ll be:

• Supporting the realisation of enterprise and solution architectures, while working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle


• Participating in design reviews for programmes with high architectural significance or risk, ensuring quality solution architecture and design, and escalating key decisions to senior architects or the Architecture Council


• Helping to drive the adoption of the bank’s target architecture by educating stakeholders and delivery partners on the benefits of modernising and optimising digital and data assets across the bank


• Monitoring and staying informed about emerging technologies, identifying potential opportunities and threats and raising them with the Architecture Council for further evaluation


• Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines

To succeed in this role, you’ll either be currently working, or have previously been in an enterprise or solution architect role with a strong understanding of private banking products, services and processes. In addition, you’ll also be able to clearly articulate the architectures you have designed particularly those involving the integration of core banking platforms with digital channels, as well as payment, open banking or card processing systems. Avaloq core banking platform and AWS skills are advantageous.

You’ll need knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success, and you’ll also bring experience of defining and developing strategic target architectures that align with organisational objectives. This will include experience of engaging with partners across the organisation to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes.

You’ll also demonstrate experience of:

• Collaborative decision\-making processes, partnering with business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction


• Creating business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives


• Participating in overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, with a focus on risk management and governance


• Supporting architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards


• People capability development, including mentoring, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

80% Base pay This is the part your your pay package that you take home every month.

10% Pension funding 10% of your salary goes towards your pension every month.

10% Benefit funding 10% of your salary goes towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

• JavaScript


• ReactJS


• AngularJS

Back end

• Python


• Java


• Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

• AWS


• GitLab


• Google Cloud Platform

Data

• Kafka


• Hadoop


• PostgreSQL


• Snowflake

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