Solution Architect - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Solution Architect - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join a team at the forefront of transforming Markets Sales through innovative, scalable technology solutions. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence how front-office teams serve clients, accelerate onboarding, and drive smarter judgment using data and AI.

You’ll work on high-impact key projects in a collaborative environment, where your contributions will shape the future of Sales technology at Barclays while advancing your knowledge base and career.

To be successful as a Solution Architect - VP, you should have:

• Experience designing front-office or Markets technology solutions across Sales workflows, client onboarding, trading enablement, and post-trade handoffs

• Considerable workflow design knowledge across lifecycle states, accountability, approvals, maker-checker supervision, exceptions, audit trails, service-level agreements, and monitoring

• Experience modernizing legacy platforms with reusable services, integration contracts, canonical data models, and clear migration paths

• Familiarity with applied AI patterns such as extraction, summarization, semantic search, workflow assistance, routing, triage, recommendations, and human-in-the-loop review

• Ability to explain architecture through diagrams, proof-of-concept findings, trade-offs, non-functional requirements, and implementation guidance, direct experience with Java microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud/container platforms, CI/CD, observability, resiliency, scalability, and performance

Other highly valued skills include:

• Camunda, BPMN workflow modeling, Kafka, or similar event-driven messaging experience

• Applied AI experience such as extraction, summarization, semantic search, workflow assistance, routing, triage, recommendations, or human-in-the-loop review

• Domain exposure to Sales workflows, client onboarding, trading enablement, trade capture, allocation, confirmations, exceptions, or post-trade handoffs

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, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ 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
• other paid leave for qualifying circumstances

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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…