Enterprise Architect Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Experience translating business strategy into technology strategy, target-state architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
• Ability to define and govern enterprise-wide architecture principles, standards, and strategic technology direction across business domains and value streams.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and develop an architecture capability and promote continuous improvement, technical excellence, innovation, and professional growth.
• Deep expertise in cloud, data, AI, integration, platforms, and engineering practices, with the ability to guide large-scale modernisation and simplification initiatives.
• Ability to build alignment among senior business and technology stakeholders and influence decisions and priorities without direct authority.
• Ability to ensure technology investments and architecture decisions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, security policies, resilience objectives, and strategic outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division or Group and comprehensive knowledge of relevant industry theories, practices, and market developments.
• Advanced analytical and interpretative thinking to solve problems and design solutions in complex or sensitive situations.
• Ability to negotiate with and influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Commitment to demonstrating Barclays’ leadership behaviours, Values, and Mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Business architecture and operating model design linking technology capabilities to business capabilities, value streams, client propositions, and strategic objectives.
• AI, data, and emerging technology strategy, including Agentic AI frameworks, automation, and data-driven business transformation.
• Strategic planning and investment prioritisation, including shaping roadmaps, evaluating trade-offs, and directing technology investment toward business outcomes.
• Standardisation, reuse, and platform adoption through enterprise platforms, common capabilities, reference architectures, and engineering patterns.
• Architecture community leadership, including succession planning, talent development, and collaboration across global architecture teams.
• Executive communication and storytelling that explains technology strategies, risks, opportunities, and investment decisions in clear business terms.

Responsibilities

• Develop, evolve, and implement technology architecture and strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Translate business strategy into technology strategy, target-state architectures, and pragmatic transformation roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.
• Define and govern enterprise architecture principles, standards, and strategic technology direction across business domains and value streams.
• Lead the US Corporate Banking Architecture capability and develop architectural talent and the broader architecture community.
• Guide strategic transformation initiatives, platform modernisation programmes, and regulatory change agendas within a Scaled Agile delivery model.
• Assess new technologies to address current and future business needs, including emerging AI and Agentic AI frameworks.
• Determine and govern solutions that balance business and customer outcomes with compliance, governance, security, funding, resilience, and enterprise standards.
• Monitor application performance, resilience, and stability; identify and resolve issues; and communicate and document findings for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business, technology, product, architecture, engineering, operations, and enterprise stakeholders to understand needs, share expertise, and align strategy and standards.
• Influence senior stakeholders and committees, advise functional management, and act as a principal contact for key clients and counterparts in other functions or business divisions.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and policy and procedure development; manage or consult on complex strategic projects and support resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Ensure regulatory requirements are observed, escalate policy or procedure breaches appropriately, and monitor relevant industry and external developments.
• Mentor, guide, and coach colleagues; foster continuous improvement, technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Support engineering and architecture community initiatives to streamline operations and share and grow knowledge.
• Demonstrate Barclays’ LEAD behaviours and its Values and Mindset.