Solution Architect

Join us at Barclays as a Solution Architect, where you’ll design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business challenges by partnering with stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver robust, scalable architectures. This role will take ownership of FX architecture across key corporate initiatives, building a permanent knowledge base and replacing an existing MSP position to ensure long‑term consistency and reduced technology risk.

To be successful as a Solution Architect, you should have experience with:

• Proficient in architecting solutions across disparate technologies to achieve the complex business objectives of multiple business areas.
• Proven experience in designing and/or building highly scalable and resilient core payment systems for global financial organisations.
• Knowledge of various UK and International schemes like FPS, BACS, CHAPS, Target2, SEPA and SWIFT.
• Experience in systems integration projects that involve open‑source technologies and implementation utilising cloud based computing and APIs.

• Knowledge and experience of Cyber threats, Information Security or Fraud.
• Expertise in technology domains within payments:
  Dev Ops, API, Analytics, Cloud adoption and Process Automation.
• Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture design principles and/or Cloud based solutions.
• Experience in developing Target Operating Models, capability models and transition architectures that resonate with Board‑level executives.

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.

This role is based in Knutsford/Glasgow/Northampton.

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 assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

• 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.
• 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…