Solution Designer

Join us as a Solution Designer at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as strong experience in the field of cloud computing, troubleshooting and analytical skills, experience with CI/CD systems and client management skills as well as job-specific technical skills. Additional knowledge in Azure, AWS and SysOps are highly valued.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for 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.

This role will be based out of our Knutsford campus.

**Purpose of the role**

To lead and develop a highly engaged team, pioneering an omni channel experience to achieve consistently excellent customer outcomes. Build and maintain your team’s capability to deliver excellent customer outcomes through identifying, understanding, and meeting customer needs both internally and externally, using available tools and enablers to grow business performance.

**Accountabilities**
- Customer service to create excellent customer satisfaction and positively influence NPS (Net Promoter Scores), act as an ambassador for Barclays externally and internally, creating connections and growth for customers.
- Identification and maintenance of active performance management standards across the team, communicating to and inspiring colleagues to be commercially minded, achieve goals and expectations, measure them frequently and honestly to ensure personal growth and support early identification and intervention where required.
- Day to day running of the business, using internal and external insights to develop an effective business plan, making evaluative judgments to support customers with their financial needs and drive long term sustainable revenue growth in your area.
- Market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
- Cultivation of a resolution culture where leaders and colleagues are customer advocates and are empowered to deal with customer requests fairly at first point of contact.
- Creation of an empowering environment, bringing together and supporting a community of colleagues who care about Customers, Colleagues and Outcomes.
- Operational performance of allocated sites and surrounding touchpoints. Ensuring operational and risk frameworks are adhered to for all direct reports, including observations.
- Creation of a culture which enables focus on building deeper relationships with customers and contribute to the overall success of Barclays.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- 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.