Senior Solutions Architect - VP

Job Description

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, 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.

Vice President Expectations

• To 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. They may also 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. They will 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. They will 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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Solutions Architect - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear — to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions. Join our team and help drive the next wave of innovation across our global transaction banking platforms. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on strategic initiatives that directly enable business growth, support expanding client franchises, and shape the future of digital banking. You will operate within a Scaled Agile delivery model, you will partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to deliver high-impact solutions whilst pioneering the use of Agentic AI frameworks to improve how technology is designed, governed, and delivered. If you're excited by complex challenges, emerging technologies, AI-powered transformation, and the opportunity to influence change at enterprise scale, we'd love to hear from you.

To be successful as a Senior Solution Architect – VP you should have:

• Experience in end-to-end Solution Architecture with proven experience designing and delivering complex enterprise solutions from concept through implementation
• Ability to clearly articulate solution design decisions, technology choices, trade-offs, and how the architecture meets both business and technical requirements
• Experience in strategic decision making by applying architectural judgement to make effective technology decisions in complex and ambiguous environments
• Deep expertise modern technology leadership in cloud, APIs, integration, data, and modern engineering practices
• Influential stakeholder management driving alignment across business, product, engineering, and architecture teams without direct authority
• Experience with risk, security & resilience to ensure solutions are secure, compliant, resilient, and fit for enterprise-scale operation

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Innovation & AI Adoption including Agentic AI frameworks and AI-enabled delivery

• Commercial & Value Orientation linking architectural decisions to measurable business outcomes

• Scrum / Agile Delivery working effectively within Agile Release Trains and value streams

• Standardization & Reuse accelerating delivery through platform adoption and architectural patterns

• Executive Communication explaining complex technology decisions in business terms

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, New Jersey office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.