Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect role at Barclays:
Spearhead digital landscape evolution, driving innovation and excellence.
Harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise digital offerings and ensure unparalleled customer experiences.
The key accountabilities include:

Engagement with business analysts, stakeholders, developers, and project managers to refine and clarify functional and non-functional requirements.
Production of solution architecture documentation describing Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technical infrastructure Architecture, Cyber security factors and Data Architecture.
Engagement with internal standards teams to confirm and validate solution compliance with standards around things like data lineage, cyber security, and architectural best practices.
Engagement with solutions architects, architects and tech leads to define border strategies and roadmaps that will facilitate multi-year and multi-project programmes.
Support development teams to grow talent and guide developers on the importance and impact sound architecture to create more robust, performant and extensible systems.
To be successful, you should have experience with:

Creating scalable, flexible, efficient, and secure solution architecture deliverables that meet business requirements, align with Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps and industry best practices.
Ability to create clear Solution Architecture diagrams and deliverables that are easy to understand.
Ability to create different architectural views and diagrams for Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, Technical infrastructure Architecture and Data Architecture.
Demonstrate deep understanding of multiple technologies, design patterns and programming languages.
Proficiency in cloud computing platforms, data modelling, network architecture, and software development.
Review and provide feedback on application designs from component teams to ensure alignment to Solutions Architecture.
Analyse complex business problems, requirements and determine business goals and root causes of problems.
Create effective solutions that meet business requirements and project timescales.
Communicate effectively and work collaboratively across multiple functional component teams and with different stakeholders.
Translate technical concepts into easily understood Solution designs and present these persuasively to stakeholders and architecture review boards.
Some other highly valued skills include:

Experience in financial services industry.
Ability to create lower-level Application Architecture deliverables including technology stack, sequence diagrams, State diagrams, data models etc.
Knowledge of Visio and Data/Entity Modelling.
Knowledge of Container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift.
This role will be based out of our Northampton or Radbroke campus.
To collaborate with stakeholders and use data and MI to identify process optimisation opportunities for capacity creation in relevant business areas.
Development and implementation of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of banking operations, using data led insights.
Participation in projects and initiatives to improve performance & optimisation efficiency and effectiveness.
Development of reports and presentations on performance & optimisation and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
Identification of industry trends and developments, and collaboration with stakeholders across the bank to provide recommendations for change and improvement within performance and optimisation processes.
Development and implementation of analytics and reporting performance & optimisation to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations.
Identification of capacity creation in operations using data and Management Information.
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.