Lead Enterprise Architect

Join Us as a Lead Enterprise Architect at Barclays

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

Key Responsibilities

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

• Technology Architecture Expertise: Ability to develop, evolve, and implement bank technology architecture aligned with business objectives.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Skill in motivating and leading diverse teams of technologists, business professionals, and enterprise leaders to align strategy and connect people.
• Regulatory Compliance Knowledge: Understanding of regulatory standards for risk management, especially in the context of investment banking, and the ability to ensure compliance while balancing other requirements like security, governance, and funding.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Problem-Solving and Innovation: Capability to assess new technologies, address current and future business needs through curiosity and analytical thinking.
• Performance Analysis: Skill in monitoring and analyzing application performance, resilience, and stability to identify and resolve issues.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate with and advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.

Purpose of the Role

To develop and evolve the bank's technology architecture through relevant solutions, strategies, and execution plans aligned with and prioritized by business and technology objectives. This includes the development, evolution, and adoption of foundational platforms and products.

Accountabilities

• Development, evolution, and implementation of the bank's technology architecture and strategies aligned with the business and technology objectives, unlocking execution and run.
• Collaboration with stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture teams and other developers, to provide subject matter expertise and share knowledge to foster continuous improvement and meet clients' technical needs.
• Motivating and leading a diverse collection of technologists, business and operations teams, and enterprise leaders, with the goal of aligning business and technology strategy and standards, identifying opportunities, and connecting people.
• Assessing new technologies to address current and future business needs through curiosity and problem-solving skills.
• Determining optimal solutions while balancing continuous requirements imposed by compliance, governance, security, and funding, through a deep understanding of business and customer outcomes and maintaining a strong grasp of underlying technologies.
• Monitoring and analyzing the performance, resiliency, and stability of applications to identify and resolve issues, and communicating and documenting key findings to stakeholders.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory standards and identifying industry developments that may impact the bank's operations and controls to enhance the application portfolio.
• Supporting engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, and share and grow knowledge.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. May also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, 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 behaviors creating an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energize and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within the discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists, providing information affecting long-term profits, organizational 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 a comprehensive understanding of organization 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 business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking is 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.