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About the Role

RTGS is the Bank of England’s Real Time Gross Settlement service, critical national infrastructure that underpins the UK financial system. This role plays a key part in shaping the evolution of RTGS, ensuring changes to payment flows, integrations, and platform services are clearly understood, buildable, and resilient.

Responsibilities

• Translate roadmap initiatives into clear, detailed designs for engineering teams.
• Design and execute time-boxed proofs of concept to validate assumptions.
• Produce lightweight design artefacts and decision records.
• Work with engineering teams to break designs into deliverable components and resolve ambiguity.
• Support implementation as solutions evolve.
• Guide key design decisions, balancing simplicity vs resilience, speed vs control, and reuse vs bespoke solutions.
• Ensure solutions are resilient, operable, traceable, auditable, and able to recover and replay.
• Identify dependencies across services and teams early.
• Support consistent design approaches across services and teams.
• Help grow design and architectural thinking within engineering teams.

Requirements

• Experience producing solution designs or technical blueprints.
• Experience working with engineering teams in a delivery environment.
• Understanding of system interactions, integrations, and data flows.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• A strong background in software engineering, including building, delivering, and operating real systems.
• Proven experience as a Solution Designer, Solution Architect, or Technical Architect in a complex, regulated, or critical systems environment.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of APIs, messaging, and service-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of data flows and consistency.
• Experience validating technical approaches through hands-on proofs of concept or spikes.
• Experience working closely with engineering teams to shape and evolve solutions.
• Ability to think through real-world scenarios, including failure and recovery.
• Strong communication skills and ability to guide decision-making.
• Comfortable working across multiple areas simultaneously, prioritizing based on complexity and risk.
• A commitment to growing engineering and design capability within teams over time.
• Experience in financial services, payments, or regulated environments (desirable).
• Familiarity with RTGS or high-value transaction systems (desirable).
• Exposure to ISO 20022 messaging (desirable).
• Experience with messaging platforms (e.g. IBM MQ, Kafka) (desirable).
• Experience supporting teams moving from project-based to product-based delivery (desirable).
• Familiarity with lightweight design documentation (e.g. ADRs) (desirable).
• Awareness of platform engineering concepts and internal platforms (desirable).

Skills

• Solution design
• Technical blueprints
• System interactions
• Integrations
• Data flows
• Software engineering
• Distributed systems
• Integration patterns
• APIs
• Messaging
• Service-based architectures
• Failure handling
• Recovery scenarios
• Proof of concept
• Communication
• Decision-making
• Prioritization
• Financial services
• Payments
• Regulated environments
• RTGS
• High-value transaction systems
• ISO 20022 messaging
• IBM MQ
• Kafka
• Platform engineering

Location

• Leeds

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Flexible working patterns

Experience Level

• Senior
• Lead

Salary/Compensations

• £64,480 - £72,540

Benefits

• Non-contributory, career average pension (1/80th of annual salary, with option to adjust)
• Discretionary performance award
• 8% benefits allowance (can be taken as salary or flexible benefits)
• 26 days’ annual leave (option to buy up to 12 additional days)
• Private medical insurance
• Income protection

About the Company

• The Bank of England is the UK's central bank, promoting monetary and financial stability. We aim to keep prices stable and people's money safe. We are known for world-leading thinking on policy and strategy. We foster a collaborative culture and offer flexible ways of working to support work-life balance. We strive to be an inclusive place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

• The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We aim to build an inclusive culture that supports people from all backgrounds and communities. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We are a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.