Job Description

Solutions Architect
Glasgow

As a Barclays Solutions Architect your role will be to lead the solutioning/end-to-end design activities for major Regulatory projects or programmes of work across the end-to-end BI Technology (approx. 80-90% of role). To assist the Head, E&D TC01 in defining the strategy and roadmap or responding to fire drills for this domain (approx. 10-20% of role). You will also may have the opportunity to lead a team of Architects should the scale of a project demand multiple Architects.

Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all 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\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• You will have ownership of end-to-end technical and application architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all technical component teams that need to contribute
• You will be responsible for ensuring project designs are compliant to architectures and standards
• Producing required governance artefacts as dictated by the TSBIA rating assigned to the project
• Presenting large project designs at the appropriate Design Authority
• Leading a team of architects (should the scale of the project demand multiple architects)
• Working under the guidance of the Lead Architect, developing elements of the technical strategy, roadmaps, and vision for the domain
• Ensuring alignment to Board approved Purpose, Values, Risk Appetite and Policies and are consistent with wider BI and Barclays Group standards

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Proven experience in designing and/or building highly scalable and highly resilient global scale financial systems
• Extensive experience in systems integration projects is a pre-requisite
• Able to demonstrate previous evidence of drive, energy, commitment, and enthusiasm

Skills that will help you in the role:

• The successful candidate ideally will have experience in banking applications and infrastructure, with an understanding of service management
• Solution architect and enterprise architect training and certification, e.g. TOGAF, BCS accreditation
• Exposure to Service Orientated Architecture design principles, service definition web services implementation including exposure of API components to external consumers
• Knowledge and experience in working with UK and International Payment processing

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. Where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 colleagues, Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one, by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen ties with city and community

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