Assistant Vice President Solutions Architect

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.

To be successful as an Assistant Vice President Solutions architect, you should have experience with:

• Experience or exposure to data architecture or enterprise data modelling, ideally within financial services or a similar regulated environment.
• Supporting data product flows, including sourcing, lineage and control points to help 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.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, including services like Lake Formation or Data Lake environments.
• Scripting skills (for example, Python or Shell) to support data validation, automation, or analysis.
• Familiarity with database systems, including relational (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL), columnar (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), and/or No
  
  SQL (Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra).
• Ample communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with product managers, engineering teams, governance forums, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and support solution development.

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

This role is based in Glasgow.

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.

• 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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and…