Lead Solution Architect - Pega

Join us as a Lead Solution Architect - Pega at Barclays, where you'll safeguard our Customers and the Bank by identifying bad actors and make Barclays the safest bank to bank with. We directly impact the customer’s experience and build the trust and reputation for the bank with our customer journeys.

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

1. Pega Lead Solution Architect certification and application working experience.
2. AWS Professional or Associate Solution Architect certification and application working experience.
3. Experience working with REST APIs, Apache Kafka, DevSecOps & EKS.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

1. Set up or migrated Client managed Pega Platform Managed on EKS on AWS or Azure.
2. Educated to Master in Computer Science or equivalent degree to be able to meet the intellectual demands of the job, or can demonstrate equivalent experience.
3. Experience with Caching solutions such as Hazelcast and Search tools like Elastic Search.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 can be based in any of the following locations: Northampton, Glasgow, and Knutsford.

Purpose of the Role

To set direction and design solutions for the bank's most complex IT systems and/or platforms, using industry-leading approaches in response to the most challenging functional and non-functional requirements.

Accountabilities

1. Set the bank's strategic architecture direction for a specialist technology area(s), e.g., development of trading platforms.
2. Provision of deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex technology architectures to stakeholders, including overseeing and coordinating solution architects, to encourage continuous learning across the architecture community.
3. Management of innovative design, engineering initiatives, and complex technology projects, through collaboration with technical experts across the bank to resolve complex problems that support the bank's technology strategy.
4. Development and promotion of architectural standards, guidelines, and governance policies to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance to support the mitigation of various risks including breaches, access, and regulatory violation.
5. Identification of emerging technology trends, patterns, and innovations that may impact the bank and implement potential solutions that align with the bank's strategic objectives.
6. Development and maintenance of advisor relationships with business partners, architects, and engineering teams to drive successful design, adoption, and engineering outcomes.
7. Advocation of optimal solutions that address the bank's technological needs through clear and compelling communication to support architectural decisions.
8. Support of engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, share, and grow knowledge.

Vice President Expectations

1. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
2. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
3. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
5. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
6. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
7. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
8. 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.

Job Info

Job Title: Lead Solution Architect - Pega

Company: CV-Library

Location: Warrington, Cheshire

Competitive

Posted:

Closes: Jan 9th 2025

Sector: IT

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

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