Barclays is seeking a Solutions Architect to design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements and design and implement solutions that meet those needs, creating solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery and drive consistency.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
* Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
* Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximize the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerization, etc.
* Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defense 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 standardized 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, including estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
* Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the bank’s governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security, and records management governance processes.
To be successful in this role, the candidate should have experience collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and understanding the requirements on the ‘What’ and the ‘Why’ and understanding the ‘AS-IS’ and ‘TO-BE’ user/customer/capability journey. Technical analysis in a complex payment processing environment, defining technology solutions that meet the requirements and agree with the CIO Technology roadmap with review from Tower Lead Solution Architects, is also required.
Other highly valued skills include knowledge of Cards & Payments domain, especially on Commercial Cards, practical knowledge of designing solutions in Cloud using Microservice, Domain Driven, Event Driven Architecture, and experience delivering change on large regulatory change programs.
The role will be based out of the Northampton office, and the candidate will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
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