Barclays

financial services

AssistantVicePresidentSolutionsArchitect

Glasgow, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Assistant Vice President Solutions Architect at Barclays. Skills: Solutions Architect, Data Architecture, Enterprise Data Modelling, Cloud Platforms, Risk and Controls, Collaboration. Design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems. Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve”

What You'll Achieve.

Meet business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling; Meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations; Deliver the agreed business and technology value; Achieve the objectives of the organisation sub-function; Keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy

Industry & Context.

financial services
Problems you'll solve

Solutions to complex business problems; Fault finding and performance issues support; Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information... to solve problems creatively and effectively

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience or exposure to data architecture or enterprise data modelling, Supporting data product flows, including sourcing, lineage and control points, Assisting in identifying technical data debt, architectural challenges, or control gaps, A working understanding of banking products, risk frameworks, regulatory data requirements and financial markets data, Ample communication and collaboration skills, Ability to work with product managers, engineering teams, governance forums, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and support solution development, Risk and controls, Change and transformation, Business acumen, Strategic thinking, Digital and technology

Nice to Have

Experience in financial services or a similar regulated environment, Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, including services like Lake Formation or Data Lake environments, Scripting skills (for example, Python or Shell) to support data validation, automation, or analysis, Familiarity with database systems, including relational (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), columnar (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), Willingness to continue learning

What You'll Do.

and implement solutions to complex business problems

Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve

Identification and implementation of technologies and platforms

Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy

Maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities

Best practice designs incorporating security principles

Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls

Adoption of standardised solutions

Feed into ongoing evolution of standard solutions

Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams

Solution design impact assessment

Development of requisite architecture inputs

evolution and governance of the bank’s target data architecture

Contribute to ensuring data is accurate

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements; Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions; Lead a team performing complex tasks; Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members; Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation; Consult on complex providing advice to People Leaders; Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas; Collaborate with other areas of work; Work with product managers, engineering teams, governance forums, and business stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communicate complex information; Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes

Process & Methodology

Estimation of project change and ongoing run costs

Full Job Description

# **Job Description** **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. **Assistant Vice President Expectations** * To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. * Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed profe

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