Lead Architect

Lead Architect

Whippany

As an CTO Lead Architect, your role is to work alongside the CIO delivery organisation providing technical architecture guidance and governance to the CIO and development teams to ensure that solutions will most effectively meet the business need and align with the group technology strategy principles, policies and standards on product choice and implementation patterns.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. 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.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Contributing to multi year architectural roadmap that leverages new technoplogy, reduces TCO and simplifies the estate while being responsive to business change
• Ensuring that the roadmap and individual system architectures are consistent with our wider Barclays target architecture, our Data Strategy, and our Technology Strategy
• Aligning the CIO book of work to deliver that roadmap over a multi year period.
• Ensuring architecture is thought through front to back including domains outside of Markets Post Trade and reviewed & governed in accordance with the TADS standard
• Creating a culture of, and technical environment for, continuous improvement in developer productivity and delivery effectiveness.
• Working with teams to develop systems that are efficient, resilient, secure, operable and take appropriate advantage of cloud capabilities and economics
• Working with solution architects and engineers from Markets Post Trade to analyse and identify technical solutions to the architectural challenges specific to their areas.
• Ensuring that any CTO technology strategy papers address the needs and challenges of Markets Post Trade

What we're looking for:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Problem-solving aptitude which you can apply to system and organizational challenges
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a Computer Science, Mathematics or Scientific discipline

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience migrating existing applications to the Cloud
• Strong understanding of CICD principles and how these can be supported through cloud
• Experience in introducing a continuous improvement approach to a mature application estate
• Formal qualification in architecture - eg TOGAF

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany

we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live.

We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will

redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany,

you'll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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