Job Description

Solutions Architect
Northampton

As a Barclays Solutions Architect, you will be working on the Payments Core Issuing team, alongside other architects, business and engineering colleagues, partnering with stakeholders from Barclay\xe2\x80\x99s security, technology, operations and infrastructure teams. This is a senior level role interacting with colleagues at many levels, shaping technology roadmap, defining milestones, ensuring good governance, producing high and low-level designs, guiding technology delivery.

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.

Working Flexibly
We\xe2\x80\x99re 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 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 career, 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 can 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?

• Designing technology solutions that meet business requirements
• Working with stakeholders to clarify problems and validate business needs
• Working with Barclays CTO to help establish the technology strategy and roadmap
• Evaluating and presenting alternative solution options and high-level estimates
• Ensuring that solutions adhere to Barclays standards, patterns and technology strategy
• Supporting architectural governance and work planning processes
• Optimizing the use of vendor solutions, along with Barclays infrastructure and technology to control total cost of ownership
• Providing mentoring, peer reviews and technical supervision for less experienced Solution Architects

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Experience designing and delivering highly-available, commercially viable solutions in a regulated environment
• Understanding of architectural best practices, methods and design patterns including knowledge and experience of security patterns & best practices (e.g. OWASP) and (e.g. PCI DSS)
• Demonstrable Technical Knowledge of technologies pertinent to Barclaycard, technologies. (e.g. AWS, Java, OpenAPI Specification (OAS) and RESTful API Modelling Language (RAML)
• A broad understanding and experience of a wide range of data sources would be expected

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Ability to clearly articulate problems, risks, challenges, constraints and the selling points of a solution, great communication, listening, presentation and analytical skills
• Practical experience with architectural design patterns and concepts including microservices, event-driven architecture and domain driven design
• Knowledge of data management concerns including data lifecycle, classification, security, business importance, accuracy, lineage and retention
• Software development experience using Java including JEE and Spring, good awareness of other programming languages and open-source libraries

Where will you be working?
Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we\'ve been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton. Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45 it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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