Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect
Knutsford  
As a Barclays Solution Architect, you’ll be the technology expert entrusted to realise the businesses aspirations as they drive their product strategy forward. Owning the architectural future of technology platforms, ensuring change balances delivery and technology whilst ensuring adherence to resiliency, observability, supportability, security, and operational readiness needs. You will challenge the status quo; things do not change by themselves, so fresh perspectives that keep processes lean, and technology current are welcomed and applauded.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

•    Demonstrating leadership qualities and being able to influence project /programme stakeholders
•    Being responsible for taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do
•    Championing new initiatives within own scope
•    Engaging with all levels of stakeholders as you define, evolve and deliver your architecture vision
•    Collaborating with the design authority for a project and acting as architecture sign-off for project level component deliverables 
•    Being responsible for ensuing governance, risk and control procedures are followed
 
What we’re looking for:

•    Proven expertise in architecting modern distributed systems
•    Effective influencing skills and being able to solve difficult problems whilst making complex architecture trade-offs
•    Experience in creating transitional architectures that leverage heritage systems
•    Ability to be hands-on and lead by example, can deliver artifacts that set the standard across solutions, architecture, designs, engineering

 
Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Functional/Domain experience in financial services Banking/Cards/Loans
•    Ability to manage technical product selection process, scope & execute Tech spikes/PoCs. 
•    Hands-on experience in architecting systems that operate within public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) 
•    Hands-on experience in modernising existing Technology stacks

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke Hall, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our Tech Command Centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.
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