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About the Role

The Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP at Barclays will drive end-to-end architecture for a low-latency, high-throughput, highly available risk platform. This platform will deliver real-time credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk analytics across asset classes, enabling real-time risk exposure monitoring, intraday limits & margin forecasting, and what-if stress/scenario analysis at enterprise scale, with security, controls, and cost efficiency. The role involves working closely with front office risk desks, quants, and the broader Liquid Financing engineering team, aligned with firm architecture standards for Data, Compute, AI & Visualization.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and improve software utilizing various engineering methodologies.
Deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration with business objectives.
Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and contribute to the organization’s technology communities.
Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements.
Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
Define platform principles, reference architectures, and standards.

Requirements

Experience with software/platform engineering, with significant experience as a technical / solution architect on complex and distributed real time or near real time risk or trading systems with large data volumes.
Expertise with AWS Well Architected Framework - EKS, MSK, EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudWatch, Step Functions with experience in designing high-availability multi-AZ designs.
Experience with Spark Streaming with Python (PySpark) on EMR/EKS; Kafka architecture and tuning; Kubernetes microservices; Flink/Kinesis for low latency event processing and streaming ETL.
Experience with designing S3 data lakes with Delta/Iceberg/Hudi, using Aurora Postgres/DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), Athena/Glue, and time series storage.
Experience with Angular based real-time UI patterns; QuickSight/Power BI/Tableau.
Demonstrated influence and leadership across multiple squads/regions in a matrixed investment banking environment.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Skills

Software Engineering
Platform Engineering
Technical Architecture
Solution Architecture
Distributed Systems
Real-time Systems
Risk Systems
Trading Systems
Large Data Volumes
AWS Well Architected Framework
EKS
MSK
EC2
Lambda
S3
Aurora
DynamoDB
IAM
KMS
VPC
CloudWatch
Step Functions
High-Availability
Multi-AZ Designs
Spark Streaming
Python
PySpark
EMR
Kafka
Kubernetes
Microservices
Flink
Kinesis
Streaming ETL
Data Lakes
Delta
Iceberg
Hudi
Aurora Postgres
ElastiCache
Redis
Athena
Glue
Time Series Storage
Angular
Real-time UI Patterns
QuickSight
Power BI
Tableau
LLM
RAG Pipelines
Embeddings
Agentic Workflows
SageMaker
Open Telemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Prime Brokerage
Prime Finance Risk Platforms
FO/MO Risk Tools
Real-time Exposure
VaR/Stress
PFE
Cross-Asset Risk Engines
Influence
Leadership
Matrixed Environment
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Risk Management
Controls
Change Management
Transformation
Business Acumen
Strategic Thinking
Digital Technology

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

Vice President
Senior

Education Level

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Salary/Compensations

$170,000
$230,000

About the Company

Barclays is embarking on a transformative journey with a clear vision to redefine the future of banking by crafting innovative solutions.
The role is part of the Liquid Financing Technology team.
The team is investing in building a modern, Client Risk Management platform, a cross-asset risk management solution that delivers real-time analytics, AI enabled workflows, and reporting for front-office users.
Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.

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