Join us as a Lead Enterprise Architect 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 unparalleled experiences.
To be successful as a Lead Enterprise Architect, you should have experience with:
1. Technology Architecture Expertise: Ability to develop, evolve, and implement bank technology architecture aligned with business objectives.
2. Leadership and Collaboration: Skill in motivating and leading diverse teams of technologists, business professionals, and enterprise leaders to align strategy and connect people.
3. Regulatory Compliance Knowledge: Understanding of regulatory standards for Risk management, especially in the context of investment banking, and ability to ensure compliance while balancing other requirements like security, governance, and funding.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
1. Problem-Solving and Innovation: Capability to assess new technologies, address current and future business needs through curiosity and analytical thinking.
2. Performance Analysis: Skill in monitoring and analysing application performance, resilience, and stability to identify and resolve issues.
3. Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate with and advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 in our Glasgow office.
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. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
5. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
6. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
7. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
8. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
9. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives.
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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