Solution Designer (Mobile)
Davidson Technology are helping one of our banking clients find a Solution Designer for their Mobile (iOS and Android) team.
Role Purpose
Solution Designers ensure that throughout the project lifecycle, the solution is aligned with the Solution Architecture, and act as a bridge between the Development teams and the Architects for all designs
Responsibilities
- Wholly responsible for leading and driving definition of the solution design for the “IT Solution” in a project/program within the Mobile domain, in a way that complies with the Solution Architecture
- Participate and, where required, run workshops to progress the design
- Identification and escalation of any potential gaps in the target architecture
- Issues & risks – drive and contribute to issue resolution / risk mitigation
- Change Request (CR) assessment – inject architecture into CR reviews, impact assess CRs and ensure alignment with design and architecture principles
- Design assurance – ensure the approved design is adhered to and there is no deviation by vendors / delivery teams
- Ensure quality, consistency and traceability of design
Experience Level
- 5+ years experience in Solution Design
- Technical domain – Digital expertise
- Agile software development practices
- DevOps capabilities
- Testing standards, tooling, automation
- APIs, microservices
Attributes
- Highly developed communication and influencing skills
- Ability to describe and communicate customers’ or bankers’ experiences in the context of impact to the organisation
- Ability to clearly articulate complex technical issues to business stakeholders
- Analytical approach to problem investigation, options and recommendations, documentation of findings in a structured way
- Able to work within time-boxed timeframes i.e. to a pre-agreed level of quality and detail
- “Can do” attitude and flexible to support other streams or carry out other project activities as the need arises
- Comfortable working at both a strategic and detailed level i.e. conceptually and at a practical level
- Provide professional and ethical behaviour in actions by ensuring compliance with external legislation, bank standards and internal operating policies and procedures relevant to the position
Cultural fit
- Ability to deal with highly ambiguous environments, provide structure and simplify complex problems
- Ability manage expectations, convince and influence senior stakeholders (i.e. Head of Technology and above)
- Ability to take complete ownership and accountability and drive outcomes
- Confident and will challenge even at the senior levels
- Ability to drive out options and solutions when dealing with problem spaces
- Step up to help the wider team as required / Be positive and support the mobile team in wider organisational conversations (e.g. team player)
- Willingness to learn and challenge processes so to improve efficiency
- Understand current state Technology and perform impact analysis
- Experience with CI/CD toolsets such as git, GitHub, Jenkins and Artifactory
- Technical Domain - iOS / Android expertise
- Understanding of mobile-related programming languages preferred (Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin)
The Benefits
- Long term project, initial 6 month contract with a strong scope to extend
- Competitive daily rate
- Leading organisation
- Hybrid working
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). We are experiencing a high volume of applications, please apply directly to the job ad, queries emailed to helena.patterson@davidsonwp.com
may not receive a reply. Job ID JN -052025-40217. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com
