Assistant Vice President Solutions Architect
Purpose of the role: To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
Accountabilities
Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes 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, and containerisation. 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 them into their ongoing evolution where appropriate. Fault finding and performance issue support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling. Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, including 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.
Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes. For roles with 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. For an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments, and identify new directions for assignments or projects.
Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of organisational objectives. Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support and keep up to speed with business activity and strategic alignment. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources and solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information – including sensitive or difficult-to-communicate content – and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Qualifications
- Experience or exposure to data architecture or enterprise data modelling, ideally within financial services or a regulated environment.
- Supporting data product flows, including sourcing, lineage and control points to improve data quality and consistency.
- Assisting in identifying technical data debt, architectural challenges, or control gaps and contributing to prioritised improvements with wider teams.
- A working understanding of banking products, risk frameworks, regulatory data requirements and financial markets data, with a willingness to continue learning.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, including services like Lake Formation or Data Lake environments.
- Python or Shell scripting skills to support data validation, automation or analysis.
- Familiarity with database systems – relational (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), columnar (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with product managers, engineering teams, governance forums and business stakeholders to understand requirements and support solution development.
You may be assessed on key critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
Join us at Barclays as an Assistant Vice President Solutions architect, where you will support the design, evolution and governance of the bank’s target data architecture. This includes shared data environments, enterprise data models and data standards aligned to business strategy. In this role you will contribute to ensuring data is accurate, secure and accessible to meet the evolving needs of internal and external stakeholders.
This role is based in Glasgow.
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