Senior Solution Architect
Join us as a Senior Solution Architect at Barclays, where you will be creating innovative cutting-edge solutions, playing a key role in the transformation of our business. You will also be pivotal in driving simplification and consistency across key technology elements. You will revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
To be successful as a Senior Solution Architect you should have experience with:
Software Architecture and understanding engineering principles, including software development, engineering patterns and system design.
Modern application architecture, including Microservices, APIs, Containerisation and designing for Cloud.
Proven track record of delivering large scale complex end to end architecture using disparate technologies to solve complex business problems.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts (both written and verbal) to an extensive and varied set of stakeholders, anticipate objections, and effectively persuade others to adopt the most suitable approach — supported by excellent troubleshooting and analytical abilities.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Autonomy – ability to drive results without direct supervision.
Experience in working in Financial Services or other highly regulated industry.
Experience of working in an Agile delivery model.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in 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 the Knutsford or Northampton office
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
Accountabilities
Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.