Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP at Barclays. Our vision is clear - to redefine the future of banking by crafting innovative solutions. In this role, you will be part of the Liquid Financing Technology team. Our team is currently investing in building a modern, Client Risk Management platform, cross-asset risk management solution that delivers real-time analytics, AI enabled workflows, and reporting for front-office users. As an Architect, you would drive end‑to‑end architecture for a low‑latency, high‑throughput, highly available risk platform that delivers real‑time credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk analytics across asset classes. You will define platform principles, reference architectures, and standards enabling real-time risk exposure monitoring, intraday limits & margin forecasting, and what‑if stress/scenario analysis, at enterprise scale, with security, controls, and cost efficiency. In this role, you would be working closely with front office risk desk, quants and broader Liquid Financing engineering team aligned to firm’s architecture standards for Data, Compute, AI & Visualization.

To be successful as a Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP, you should have:

• Experience with software/platform engineering, with significant experience as a technical / solution architect on complex and distributed real time or near real time risk or trading systems with large data volumes

• Expertise with AWS Well Architected Framework - EKS, MSK, EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudWatch, Step Functions with experience in designing high-availability multi-AZ designs

• Experience with Spark Streaming with Python (PySpark) on EMR/EKS; Kafka architecture and tuning; Kubernetes microservices; Flink/Kinesis for low latency event processing and streaming ETL

• Experience with designing S3 data lakes with Delta/Iceberg/Hudi, using Aurora Postgres/DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), Athena/Glue, and time series storage

• Experience with Angular based real-time UI patterns; QuickSight/Power BI/Tableau

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with LLM powered capabilities – chat interfaces integrated with RAG Pipelines, embeddings, and agentic workflows integrated with SageMaker pipelines.

• CloudWatch, Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana

• Direct experience with prime brokerage / prime finance risk platforms or FO/MO risk tools (e.g., real time exposure, VaR/stress, PFE, or x asset risk engines)

• Demonstrated influence and leadership across multiple squads/regions in a matrixed investment banking environment

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

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 New York, NY office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

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

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

• 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.