Solutions Architect

**About**
Barclays International (BI) is a diversified, transatlantic wholesale and consumer bank benefiting from scale and strength across three leading and complementary businesses - our global Corporate and Investment Bank; our payments and non-UK credit card businesses;and an International Wealth business. BI offers a broad and holistic product offering to meet the banking, payments and transactional needs of our Institutional, Global and mid-size Corporate clients, and a targeted international consumer proposition in cardsand wealth management.

**Overall purpose of role**
As a Solutions Architect you will lead the solutioning and end-to-end design activities for major projects or programmes of work within the Corporate Bank, ensuring architecture deliveries are in line with strategies. Your core accountabilities will includefull & partial concept solutions and architecture visions, helping to define non-functional requirements, end-to-end designs and supporting governance artefacts.

**What you will be doing?**
In your first month, you will:

- contribute to the development of a strong high-performance culture within your function and the wider technology teams
- be able to demonstrate clear and effective communication with all levels of stakeholders
By your third month, you will:

- produce Architecture Visions (AVs) and associated artefacts
- drive the AVs through collaboration with the project team and analysing project requirements
- secure approval for your AV’s from the appropriate design and governance authorities
- present solutions to business and technical stakeholders
By your sixth month, you will:

- build high quality products, adhering to software engineering best practices that drive an agile and product development mind set
- own your designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, ensuring continued alignment to end-to-end designs and review and approve component designs
Within a year, you will:

- be sought for your expert advice and knowledge, supporting the CIO and CTO lead architects to evolve the architectures and standards
- you will be familiar with the technical constraints of live environments and architecture and help support business clients in understanding any 'requirement versus cost’ trade-offs
Throughout your first year, you will:

- build your network of contacts, identifying Subject Matter Experts, technology and domain owners, and individuals to collaborate with
- You will champion new initiatives within your own scope, actively investigate new tools and techniques so we can develop innovative, cost-effective solutions which enhancing client experience

**What we are looking for**:

- Solid history of architecture deliveries
- You will be an innovative thinker
- up to date with the latest industry directions such as Cloud adoption, open-source software adoption, API first

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Bringing additional thought leadership into the team of experienced architects
- Solution architect and enterprise architect training and certification is a bonus
- Working-knowledge of governance & control techniques
- Understanding how to escalate sensitive or difficult issues

**Where you will be working**:
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful greenenvironment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

**Working Flexibly**
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity forall our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need studytime or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.