Accountabilities

• Set the strategic architecture direction for a specialist technology area, such as developing trading platforms.
• Provide deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex technology architectures for stakeholders.
• Manage innovative design, engineering initiatives, and complex technology projects with technical experts across the bank.
• Develop and promote architectural standards, guidelines, and governance policies to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance.
• Identify emerging technology trends and implement potential solutions that align with the bank's strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain advisor relationships with business partners, architects, and engineering teams.
• Advocate for optimal solutions that address the bank's technological needs.
• Support engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members and share knowledge.

Director Expectations

• Manage a business function and contribute to strategic initiatives.
• Lead a large team or sub-function and embed a performance culture.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees.
• Manage resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies and procedures.
• Foster compliance and ensure regulations are observed.
• Focus on the external environment and regulators.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the function's integration with the business division.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems.
• Exercise management authority and make significant decisions.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Significant experience operating as a senior Solution Architect or equivalent.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale integration fabrics.
• Experience defining architecture patterns for APIs, event streaming, and messaging.
• Experience establishing channel decoupling strategies.
• Deep understanding of orchestration versus choreography patterns.
• Experience translating strategic architecture direction into practical solutions.
• Passion for designing solutions that deliver simplification, reuse, consistency, scalability, security, and performance.
• Robust stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience operating within large, complex, and regulated financial services environments.

Team and Business Structure

• The successful candidate will be a senior member of the PBWM Architecture team.
• There will be some architecture team responsibilities, supporting the PBWM Architecture function.
• This role will have some accountabilities and responsibilities to support operational processes outside of the Architecture team.
• This role will be a senior attendee and key decision maker of the PBWM Architecture Review Board.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Manage change projects to help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, ensuring timely delivery, budget adherence, and regulatory compliance.
• Develop and manage project plans, outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Communicate with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners.
• Manage project teams, ensuring proper resourcing and necessary skills.
• Oversee project budgets and report on project progress.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks.
• Facilitate change management activities, including training and communication.

Director Expectations:

• Manage a business function, contributing to strategic initiatives and influencing policy and procedures.
• Lead a large team or sub-function, embedding a performance culture.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees.
• Manage resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Foster compliance and ensure regulations are observed.

Requirements:

• Experience delivering multiple transformation programmes for Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance.
• Experience delivering board-level and C-suite reporting.
• Experience in coordinating and managing regulatory responses.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Delivering Compliance and Financial Crime transformation in 2nd LoD Financial Crime in Barclays.
• Thorough understanding of Barclays Risk management framework and strategic objectives.

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Responsibilities

• Analyse business requirements and translate them into data models aligned with organisational goals
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries and glossaries to define data elements and their usage
• Monitor data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement
• Define strategic architecture and select products
• Produce logical designs in relevant subject areas, showing processes, objects, data flows, inputs, stored data, and outputs
• Implement architectures and resolve design-related issues
• Define and document data architecture standards, principles, and strategies

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
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving business goals
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes
• Use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes

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