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About the Role

Embark on a transformative journey as a Solution Architect - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join a team at the forefront of transforming Markets Sales through innovative, scalable technology solutions. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence how front-office teams serve clients, accelerate onboarding, and drive smarter judgment using data and AI. You’ll work on high-impact key projects in a collaborative environment, where your contributions will shape the future of Sales technology at Barclays while advancing your knowledge base and career.

Responsibilities

Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
Identification and implementation of 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, or feed into their ongoing evolution.
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 banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists.
Provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Requirements

Experience designing front-office or Markets technology solutions across Sales workflows, client onboarding, trading enablement, and post-trade handoffs
Considerable workflow design knowledge across lifecycle states, accountability, approvals, maker-checker supervision, exceptions, audit trails, service-level agreements, and monitoring
Experience modernizing legacy platforms with reusable services, integration contracts, canonical data models, and clear migration paths
Familiarity with applied AI patterns such as extraction, summarization, semantic search, workflow assistance, routing, triage, recommendations, and human-in-the-loop review
Ability to explain architecture through diagrams, proof-of-concept findings, trade-offs, non-functional requirements, and implementation guidance
Direct experience with Java microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud/container platforms, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, scalability, and performance
Camunda, BPMN workflow modeling, Kafka, or similar event-driven messaging experience
Applied AI experience such as extraction, summarization, semantic search, workflow assistance, routing, triage, recommendations, or human-in-the-loop review
Domain exposure to Sales workflows, client onboarding, trading enablement, trade capture, allocation, confirmations, exceptions, or post-trade handoffs
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Skills

Java microservices
REST APIs
Event-driven architecture
Cloud/container platforms
CI/CD
Observability
Resiliency
Scalability
Performance
Camunda
BPMN workflow modeling
Kafka
Applied AI patterns
Sales workflows
Client onboarding
Trading enablement
Post-trade handoffs

Location

Whippany, NJ

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

Vice President
VP

Salary/Compensations

$170,000
$230,000

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k)
Life insurance
Paid leave for qualifying circumstances
Incentive award

About the Company

At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
Join a team at the forefront of transforming Markets Sales through innovative, scalable technology solutions.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence how front-office teams serve clients, accelerate onboarding, and drive smarter judgment using data and AI.
You’ll work on high-impact key projects in a collaborative environment, where your contributions will shape the future of Sales technology at Barclays while advancing your knowledge base and career.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.