Join Barclays as an Enterprise Solution Architect, where you’ll be responsible for shaping and delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that drive the transformation of our heritage estate into a modern, industry-standard technology environment.
To be successful as an Enterprise Solution Architect, you should have:
1. Extensive experience architecting and engineering within multi-channel environments, including Web, Mobile, and API channels.
2. Deep knowledge of industry-standard trends and patterns across various industries, problem scenarios, and requirements.
3. Expertise in Web and Mobile technologies, practices, frameworks/languages, and toolsets.
4. In-depth understanding of IAM & API technologies, security practices, testing, data management, and tooling.
5. Familiarity with advancements in GenAI and proactive AIOps technologies.
Key Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Java, Springboot, Kafka, React & React Native, REST, GraphQL, OAuth/OIDC, Openshift, Terraform, GitLab.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
1. Domain-Driven Design & Modular Architecture: Proficiency in frameworks like TOGAF/Zachman for governing enterprise-level technology change.
2. Experience positioning enterprise architecture roles within agile environments.
3. Understanding of the regulated financial services environment, including retail banking and payments.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in 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.
Purpose of the role: To develop, and evolve the bank's technology architecture through relevant solutions, strategies and execution plans aligned to and prioritized by business and technology objectives, including the development, evolution and adoption of foundational platforms and products.
Accountabilities:
1. Development, evolution and implementation of the bank's technology architecture and strategies aligned to the business and technology objectives, unlocking execution and run.
2. Collaboration with stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture teams and other developers to provide subject matter expertise and share knowledge to foster continuous improvement, and clients to understand and deliver on their technical needs.
3. Motivation and leadership of a diverse collection of technologists, business and operations teams and enterprise leaders, with the goal to align business & technology strategy & standards, identifying opportunities and connecting people.
4. Assessment of new technologies to address current and future business needs, through a combination of curiosity and problem-solving skills.
5. Determination of the optimal solutions while balancing continuous requirements imposed by compliance, governance, security and funding, through deep understanding of the business and customer outcomes and maintaining a strong and steady grasp on the underlying technologies.
6. Monitoring and analysis of the performance, resiliency and stability of applications to identify and resolve issues and communicate and document key findings to stakeholders.
7. Compliance with applicable regulatory standards and identification of industry developments that may impact the bank's operations and controls to enhance the bank's application portfolio.
8. Support of engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, share and grow knowledge.
Vice President Expectations:
1. To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
2. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
3. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
4. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
5. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
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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