Technical Architect.
I am looking for a Technical Architect with extensive experience within challenger banks.
As the Technical Architect you are required to Support Head of Service Mgmt & Operations in writing IT Overview as part of the banking license application.
Specifically, building diagrams and writing narrative for:
- Overview description of IT, including:
- Principal applications, their ages, whether package or bespoke, numbers of users and transaction volumes, how supported and by whom
- For new core systems being implemented, high level implementation plans, migration plans, test plans, and timetables.
- Principal data centres and other IT staff locations, and what each is used for
- Principal service providers, and services provided by each, whether external or intra-group, identifying any link to the applicant firm, and including supplier location, rationale for the outsourcing, and supplier due diligence and selection process.
- Details of oversight responsibilities and arrangements, systems and controls for each outsourced function material to the firm's management and operations.
- Principal locations served.
- Principal user groups (e.g. staff, professional customers, retail customers)
- Resilience, business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements
