Senior Technical Architect

Join Barclays as a Senior Technical Architect, where you’ll lead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and operational excellence. In this role, you will oversee the architectural strategy for ‘Skylight’, designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems, while delivering comprehensive documentation. You will align the technical architecture with business goals, ensuring solutions effectively support the organisation’s needs. Additionally, you will analyse current business processes, identify inefficiencies, and collaborate with stakeholders to set priorities. You will lead a team of engineers (manager of managers), fostering a high-performing and innovative environment.

To be successful as a Senior Technical Architect, you will need the following:

• Leadership experience, Track record of motivating and inspiring engineering teams through complex transitions
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Proven experience in designing service boundaries and communication patterns.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and API gateways (including REST APIs and GraphQL).
• Demonstrated ability to create detailed functional designs and architectural documentation.
• Proficiency in business process analysis and mapping.
• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including experience with cloud providers and internal cloud provisioning.
• Strong understanding of containerization and database schema design.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• A background of application development and coding.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with CLI and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform.
• Strong communication skills to bridge technical and business teams effectively.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, especially in navigating architectural transformations.

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.

The successful candidate will be based in Radbroke Hall, Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.