Business Design Specialist (Architecture)

Rathbones provides individual investment and wealth management services for private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners. We have been trusted for generations to manage and preserve our clients’ wealth.

Our tradition of investing and acting responsibly has been with us from the beginning and continues to lead us forward. Our ambition is to be recognised as the UK’s most responsible wealth manager.

We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make decisions today. Looking beyond the short term for the most sustainable outcome. This is how we build enduring value for our clients, make a wider contribution to society and create a lasting legacy. Thinking, acting and investing responsibly.

Role Title:  Business Design Specialist (Architecture)

Department: Technology

Location: Liverpool or Glasgow

Contract Type:  Permanent

The Role

Purpose: A specialist role within the Technology department, combining knowledge of solutions architecture and technical design. This role is a specialist working in a multi-disciplined team, alongside Business Design (Analysis)  and Testing, delivering a unified business design capability

The role is to ensure that technical designs deliver the most effective change, optimizing business processes and technological advancements.

Outcomes of the Role

As a Design Specialist, you will provide depth of knowledge across Solutions Architecture and technical design, working closely with team members and other design specialisms. The unified Business Design Capability aims to cover Technical and Business design, and overall quality engineering (testing).

As a design specialist, you will be expected to lead of complex solution designs, delivering define requirements, considering how the business outcomes can be tested and proved. You will also be expected to support Design Analysts in the team, who focus on breadth of knowledge across all 3 disciplines.

Your role encompasses several key responsibilities and areas of focus:

• Motivates and supports teams' members on solution and technical design activities for the overall product portfolio.
• Support a culture of high-performance solutions architecture, technical design & innovation.
• Partnering design specialists within the team to provide a holistic unified design team for product change.
• Through experience and knowledge built through assignment within a product portfolio to identify opportunities for synergy, efficiency and innovation.
• Support establishing Communities of Practise, focusing on Architecture practises, across all product portfolios, evolving and managing standards, principles, tooling  and ways of working.
• Join and support a culture of service excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team
• Responsible for ensuring that ITs vision to be “the firm’s Technology partner - providing sustainable services that enable the business strategy” is delivered, within the operating and design principles agreed.
• Support and embed the Agile culture that helps to accelerate both the pace and value of the deliveries

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Demonstrable leadership, working with senior stakeholder and managing large teams.
• Demonstrable detail-oriented, analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to influence, engage and collaborate with a diverse range of personalities.
• Excellent interpersonal and articulate communication skills, including ability to negotiate successful outcomes. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and be able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and improve
• Acts with integrity
• Excellent co-ordination / organisation skills
• Analytical and planning skills coupled with an independent, objective and process-oriented way of working. 
• Able and confident to challenge assumptions and probe detail.
• Strong understanding of wealth management products, services, and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile environments is a plus.
• TOGAF certified or equivalent experience
• Highly developed business analytical skills – specifically aimed at the generation of complete and consistent business requirements and business cases for IT Change, in collaboration with SME’s
• High levels of initiative, professionalism, independence and resilience
• Proven record of producing quality technical requirements, design and test documentation

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values – those that are passionate about client service, operate with the highest levels of integrity and have a strong results focus.

We’re a Level 1 Disability Confident employer under the UK Government scheme. This means we’ve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via recruit@rathbones.com to let us know what adjustments you may need.