Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP

Barclays•New York, NY

8d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP at Barclays. Our vision is clear - to redefine the future of banking by crafting innovative solutions. In this role, you will be part of the Liquid Financing Technology team. Our team is currently investing in building a modern, Client Risk Management platform, cross-asset risk management solution that delivers real-time analytics, AI enabled workflows, and reporting for front-office users. As an Architect, you would drive end‑to‑end architecture for a low‑latency, high‑throughput, highly available risk platform that delivers real‑time credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk analytics across asset classes. You will define platform principles, reference architectures, and standards 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. In this role, you would be working closely with front office risk desk, quants and broader Liquid Financing engineering team aligned to firm’s architecture standards for Data, Compute, AI & Visualization.

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

Nice To Haves

Experience with LLM powered capabilities – chat interfaces integrated with RAG Pipelines, embeddings, and agentic workflows integrated with SageMaker pipelines.
CloudWatch, Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana
Direct experience with prime brokerage / prime finance risk platforms or FO/MO risk tools (e.g., real time exposure, VaR/stress, PFE, or x asset risk engines)
Demonstrated influence and leadership across multiple squads/regions in a matrixed investment banking environment
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

Responsibilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
To 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.
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.