Design Lead

Join us as Design Lead at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Design Lead you should have experience with:

• Building strong business/stakeholder relationships to ensure robust view & understanding of requirements
• Knowledge of application design, deployment and integration within large scale enterprise ecosystems
• Ability to create visual representations of both the colleague, customer journey experience as well as mapping out the e2e service process
• Working effectively with individuals from different disciplines, such as developers and business teams and facilitating design workshops

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Considerable understanding of MarTech capabilities and tech stack
• Agile & Scrum Methodologies: Experience in leading agile teams and working with scrum frameworks
• Understanding of both on prem and public cloud e.g. AWS integration, capabilities and networking
• Control by design principles

The location of the role is based in Knutsford or Northampton, United Kingdom.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery.

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
• 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 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.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• 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.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information to stakeholders.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.