Solutions Architect

2 months ago

Stockport, United Kingdom Barclays Bank Full time
Join us as a Solutions Architect at Barclays where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.

Youll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as experience of shaping and defining solutions across disparate technologies, broad knowledge of technologies and architecture paradigms, experience of working in Agile environment, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Additional relevant skills in FunctionalDomain experience in financial services (BankingCardsLoans), TOGAFAWS, AzureGCP, experience in identifying Threat Vectors across the cloud environment are highly valued.

This role can be based out of both Knutsford and Northampton.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times.

Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

**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.

**Vice President Expectations**
● Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
● Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
● Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
● Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
● Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
● Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
● Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
● Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

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