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Solution Architect

1 month ago

Knutsford, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Barclays Bank Plc Full time

Join us as a Solution Architect at Barclays within our Group Functions and Enterprise Data Solution Design organisation. The purpose of the Solution Design organisation is to support, and in specific cases lead,  the definition and design comprehensive technology and business solutions that meet organisational objectives. This includes analysing business requirements, developing solution and data architecture, ensuring system integration, and producing scalable, high-quality solution designs that align with both business needs and technical architecture. 

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

To be a successful Solution Architect you should have experience with:

  • Concurrently working across multiple projects/initiatives where multi-tasking is an essential skill
  • Data Analysis and Modelling Skills that help make sense of data flows, transformations and process
  • Excellent communication skills that allow you to communicate complex designs across different levels of the organisation
  • Working independently with a high attention to detail, tenacious attitude and a desire to simplify the technology landscape
  • Being able to apply Problem Solving techniques across a range of business and technology problems to help drive a deliverable and operational solution for the organisation.

Additional Relevant Skills that are highly regarded

  • Experience in the Financial Services industry both regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives
  • Development background and experience in tools such as Confluence and Jira
  • Cloud technology and GenAI solutions

This role is based in Knutsford or Northampton.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and 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 meet those needs and create 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. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
  • Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
  • Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank's resiliency expectations.
  • Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
  • Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
  • Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
  • Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
  • Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

  • To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
  • For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
  • Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
  • Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
  • Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
  • Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
  • Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
  • Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve 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.