Solution Architect - VP

Barclays • Jefferson, CO

1d • $170,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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 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.
• 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.
• If managing a team, they 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.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will 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 and 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• other paid leave for qualifying circumstances
• incentive award

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed