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SALARY: £56,816 - £71,000 pa dependent on experience
LOCATION: Milton Keynes
HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.
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CLOSING DATE: 31st August 2025 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.
In this role you will be providing architectural design ownership at a domain level for key strategic initiatives and transformation programmes within VWFS UK which will include our New Contract Management Transformation, Fleet Programmes & Projects and our Digital Programme
You will define and develop new solution architecture technology components, patterns and integrations and make opportunity and solution recommendations to the Head of Architecture, Technology & Enterprise Data, Lead Enterprise Architect, Architecture Review Board and Enterprise Architects, as well as the product and business teams. You’ll also work in close collaboration with the global architecture team in our headquarters in Germany
Fantastic opportunity to join our team of experienced Architects!
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead the Solution Architecture and design for a specific business area
- Define and develop high level architecture and designs in line with the published Architecture roadmaps, technology standards, patterns, principles, guardrails, and guidelines to deliver quality IT solutions
- Define and develop Solution Building Blocks in line with the VWFS application & platform strategies to ensure alignment with enterprise-wide strategies
- You’ll work in partnership with other areas of IT to realise the end-to-end solution architecture vision, ensuring implementation follows agreed high-level design and meets acceptance into service requirements for IT service management
- Convert complex requirements into architecture and design to create blueprints for the relevant solutions using published reference architectures, and where appropriate with guidance from VWFS Enterprise Architecture
- Provide full-stack Solution Architecture services to the various IT Development teams and capabilities for the implementation and delivery of products and services to realise the business outcomes
What you’ll bring:
- You’ll have experience leading architecture development working with cross-functional technology and architecture teams and business stakeholders for complex systems and IT services
- You have in-depth knowledge and experience of Solution Architecture in at least one IT Architecture domain, for example: Business, Application, Data, Technology, Security
- Expertise in enterprise integration patterns, interface design, messaging models as well as Agile architectural thinking and Lean delivery of architectural work
- Experience of leading documentation of large, complex IT proposals linked to objectives, costs, and financial benefits
- You have used and managed EA tools such as LeanIX, Alfabet, Bizzdesign and Sparx Enterprise Architect
- Strong experience of cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure and, designing APIs, Integrations, Event Based Architectures and Micro-services Architectures
- Understanding of both SOAP and REST, and the pros and cons of each
- Experience of building out both high level and low-level technical designs for consumption by product, system, development teams and technology partners
- Previous experience in Financial Services, Automotive Finance or Retail Consumer Finance would be a real advantage
What’s in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.