Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect 
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Senior Solutions Architect, you will be joining the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Technology team, which is embarking on a multi-year effort to design and implement our Supervision, Controls and Surveillance platform from the ground. In this role, you will be responsible for simplifying and modernizing our technical architecture through effective design, prototyping, building, and delivering a state-of-the-art platform for managing regulatory change and risks across the Markets organization.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Defining and overseeing the implementation of a multi-year strategy for Supervision, Controls and Surveillance to update the application monolith
• Increasing mobile integration and embrace mobile-first design and development methodologies
• Leading Agile Adoption for the team to ensure sustainable processes and management of Key Person Risks, Knowledge Gaps
• Migrating to a standard technology stack by developing reusable and leverage commodity components, and implement Service Based Architecture
• Optimizing application performance by instrumenting the application profiling, finding inefficiencies and bottlenecks, and enabling real time monitoring
• Collaborating with business managers, sales, traders, compliance, legal, operations, and support to analyze new requirements, explain new feature, and investigate reported issues
• Designing and implementing measures to support the stability, resiliency, scalability, and performance of the application to meet End User’s expectations.
• Improving our developer experience, engineering expertise, improve coding standards, quality, and test practices

What we’re looking for:

• Proficiency in designing complex, scalable and resilient systems architectures, using modern architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless architectures, data mesh, etc.)
• Expert knowledge in security principles, encryption technologies, and secure coding practices to protect against cyber threats and vulnerabilities
• In-depth understanding of cloud services, architecture, and security, with experience in designing and deploying cloud-native solutions on prem and public cloud
• Skills in data architecture, database design and big data technologies, with the ability to leverage data analytics for risk insights

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Understanding of capital market products and trade lifecycle
• Knowledge of financial regulations and standards (e.g., GDPR, SOX, CCPA, BASEL III) and ability to design systems that ensure compliance
• Ability to conduct risk assessments and apply quantitative and qualitative risk analysis methods to technology decisions
• Problem-solving ability to address new situations and efficiently handle any incidents which may arise particularly in performance and observability

Where will you be working?

Our next-generation workplace in Whippany allows talented, passionate, down-to-earth colleagues to connect daily. With state-of-the-art work facilities and many added features like pool tables, cafés and a gym – it’s a place you can call home. Our office is minutes away from Morristown, known for its rich history and lively modern spirit. With bustling Manhattan easily accessible and a picturesque landscape here on the doorstep, Whippany really does offer the best of both worlds.

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