• Job Description

  Req#: 90391374

  Role Title: Head of Solution Architecture

  Location: Knutsford

  What will you be doing

  · You will be the Lead Architect within a business area that has true customer and colleague impacts. You will build and lead a practice driving multi year solutions to drive digitisation of the Life Moments journeys.

  · You will create an architectural vision in keeping with the business providing a technical solution for customer and colleagues. In owning the technical solution, you will provide an end to end assurance that satisfies business needs.

  · You will bring diverse experiences and a change mind-set to drive quality technical outcomes

  · You will own the architectural future of multiple technology platforms. Being the platform custodian, you will ensure that any developments align to the overall Barclays UK technology strategy.

  · Champion our workforce strategy as we look to continue to recruit world class architecture capability across our strategic campus locations (across the UK and India).

  · Leverage group-wide capabilities, technologies, patterns and practices. Creating capacity for the business by delivering with maximum efficiency.

  Person Specification

  · Technologist role model – retention and attractor of top technology talent

  · Ability to lead solutions in depth at all levels including architecture, interface specification, code structure, network protocols, operations and troubleshooting

  · Demonstrable experience of keeping abreast of new and emerging technologies

  · Strong analytical and problem solving skills

  · Excellent written and verbal reasoning and communication skills

  · Operate with a sense of purpose whilst displaying high levels of empathy and professionalism, with ability to work in and lead teams

  · Action-focused, results-oriented and customer-obsessed

  · Freely shares information and experiences, and seeks knowledge from others

  · Able to demonstrate experience in driving a long term vision whilst continuously delivering value

  What we’re looking for

  · Experience of leading and managing technical teams (solution architects, solution designers, etc.)

  · Significant experience integrating disparate systems and exploiting effective APIs and most appropriate technologies

  · Strong experience of Agile and DevOps principles, tools and practices

  · Experience with automation and cloud technologies

  · Strong analytical skills and proven ability to simplify and clearly communicate complex analytical outcomes, linkages and messages to both technical and non-technical audiences

  · A broad and deep knowledge of technologies (including API, Cloud, Core banking, Lending technologies) that are used by financial service providers.

  · Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.

  · Experience in working on environments adopting agile methodologies

  · Qualified and/or experiences in architectural standards/methodologies/techniques

  Skills that will help you in your role

  · The role holder will have strong people management and leadership skills and have had specific experience working in a matrix management model where influencing, challenging and negotiating skills have been highly leveraged

  · The role holder will have proven ability to effectively build capability in virtual teams with the ability to negotiate in a sphere of influence at a senior level

  · Provide clear and effective leadership, in line with Barclays values, in defining the strategy and shaping it into an executable plan across the business and functions

  · Agree appropriately stretching performance and development objectives for all direct reports, providing regular feedback, and coaching to ensure their maximum potential is achieved

  Decision-making and Problem Solving

  · Responsible for making priority decisions about the scope of deliverables when faced with technical constraints

  · Data-driven approach to root cause analysis and proactively understanding what gets in the way and unblocking

  · The role holder will be required to make swift, well-reasoned decisions

  · Experienced in acting as the design authority for a mutli year program of work

  · Experienced in working with the design authority architecture sign-off for component deliverables

  · Able to estimate budgets for small to medium and projects;

  · Can identify high-impact, sensitive situations or issues and escalate appropriately;

  · Ensures governance, risk and control procedures are followed.

• About the company

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