Lead Architect

1 week ago


Toft, United Kingdom Barclays Bank PLC Full time
Lead Architect - AI

Barclays Bank PLC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Architect - AI to spearhead the development of our AI-powered solutions. As a key member of our Digital Customer Experience team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing cutting-edge AI solutions that drive innovation and excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop AI-powered solutions that meet business requirements and enhance customer experiences.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful implementation of AI projects.
  • Ensure AI systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable, handling large volumes of data and complex computations.
  • Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI technologies and methodologies to continuously improve and innovate AI solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Evaluate and select AI tools and technologies that best fit project requirements and organizational goals.
  • Promote and ensure the ethical use of AI, considering privacy, fairness, and transparency in AI solutions.

Requirements:

  • Experience with delivery methodologies and organizational structures.
  • A background in complex delivery, operations, and product engineering.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills.
  • Communication skills focused on both technical and business language.
  • The ability to measure the value of different approaches to technical problems.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in architectural roles with broad applicability across financial services.
  • Experience in managing technical engagements to design and deliver positive outcomes in complex systems engineering.
  • Experience in AWS, AI/ML, or payments is highly valued.

This role will be based out of our Knutsford campus. As a Lead Architect - AI, you will be responsible for designing and developing AI-powered solutions that meet business requirements and enhance customer experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful implementation of AI projects and ensure AI systems are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.

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 maximize the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerization, etc.
  • Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defense 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.
  • 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, including estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
  • Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the Bank's 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 organization's 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.

Barclays Values:

  • Respect
  • Integrity
  • Service
  • Excellence
  • Stewardship

Barclays Mindset:

  • Empower
  • Challenge
  • Drive

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