Solution Architect

Join us as a Solution Architect at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. The purpose of this role is to manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control, and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

To be successful as a Solution Architect at Barclays, you should have experience in:

The design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.

Designing solutions using APIs, Microservices, ETL processes, workflow management tools along with designing database schemas following standard architecture principles.

Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security, and record management governance processes.

• Ability to analyse complex data from multiple sources, both internal and external, such as procedures and practices to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Lead technical workshops, guide development teams, and ensure the overall quality and scalability of the implementations.
• Industry experience in Financial Services and ideally Banking (Business/Corporate preferred to Retail).

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities.
• Incorporate best practice designs that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Balance risks and controls to deliver agreed business and technology value.
• Adopt standardised solutions, and contribute to their evolution as needed.
• Support fault finding and performance issues with operational support teams.
• Assess solution design impacts in terms of risk, capacity, and cost.
• Comply with the bank's governance processes, including necessary design artefacts.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and ensure operational effectiveness.
• Lead teams in performing complex tasks, set objectives, and coach team members.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create a thriving environment.
• Consult on complex issues and provide advice on escalated issues.
• Mitigate risks and develop new policies/procedures to support governance.
• Engage in complex analysis of data to solve problems effectively.
• Communicate complex information effectively, often to difficult or sensitive audiences.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.