EMM Architecture

• Ensure effective support of business and technical change through direct architecture support of development activity and early engagement in business change, supporting the evolution of architectural designs through delivery.
• Represent and actively participate in Global governance and Architecture communities on behalf of the EMM Architecture & Design.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders and business units to fully understand business needs and provide strategic consultation.
• Translate business requirements into solution architecture and design and technical product roadmaps.
• Manage technical debt to support long-term sustainable development.
• Partner with CTO, CIO, Engineering, Security, Data & Product teams to establish the right Architecture & Design for the Change and Domains.
• Surface Technology / Design / Architecture challenges with Head of Architecture, CIO and other technology support functions.
• Ensure design and architecture meet Platform & Program goals.

To set direction and design solutions for the bank's most complex IT systems and/or platforms, using industry-leading approaches in response to the most challenging functional and non-functional requirements.

• Set the bank's strategic architecture direction for specialist technology areas, e.g., development of trading platforms.
• Provide deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex technology architectures to stakeholders, including overseeing and coordinating solution architects, to encourage continuous learning across the architecture community.
• Manage innovative design and engineering initiatives and complex technology projects through collaboration with technical experts across the bank to resolve complex problems that support the bank's technology strategy.
• Develop and promote architectural standards, guidelines, and governance policies to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance to mitigate various risks including breaches, access, and regulatory violations.
• Identify emerging technology trends, patterns, and innovations that may impact the bank and implement potential solutions that align with the bank's strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain advisor relationships with business partners, architects, and engineering teams to drive successful design, adoption, and engineering outcomes.
• Advocate optimal solutions that address the bank's technological needs through clear and compelling communication to support architectural decisions.
• Support engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, and share and grow knowledge.

• Manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. For an individual contributor, lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energize and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.