Solution Architect - VP

Job Overview

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 & Responsibilities

• 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, including estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the bank’s governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security, and records management governance processes.

Leadership & Strategy

• 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours that create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, 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.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives, and adopting outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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 modernising 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.
• Assessment may cover risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job‑specific technical skills.

Location & Compensation

• This role is located in Whippany, NJ office.
• Minimum Salary: $170,000
• Maximum Salary: $230,000 (base salary only; does not include other compensation or benefits).

Benefits

• 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.