Senior Solutions Architect - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Solutions Architect - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will architect and design real time banking rails that power Loans and Deposits products on the U.S. Banking Platform. You will have responsibility for the end-to-end solution architecture, shaping cloud native, event driven services that directly accelerate digital delivery, platform reliability, and customer experience at Barclays. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to translate business outcomes into scalable, resilient, and compliant architectures, while enabling teams to deliver meaningful features early and safely—reducing digital friction for millions of customers.

To be successful as a Senior Solutions Architect - VP, you should have experience:

• Defining end‑to‑end banking solution architectures translating business and product needs into clear, domain‑driven designs covering APIs, services, data, events, integrations, and non‑functional requirements for real‑time, regulated environments

• Shaping technology and platform strategy by guiding Java/Spring microservices, API‑first and event‑driven (Kafka) architectures, front‑end/channel integration, and alignment to cloud or internal PaaS standards

• Maintaining non‑functional requirements, security, and resilience, ensuring high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and compliance with enterprise risk and regulatory expectations

• Enabling engineering delivery through hands‑on architectural leadership, partnering with teams on design strategies, reviews, and standards while validating feasibility without becoming the primary implementer

• Ensuring operability, governance, and lifecycle ownership, embedding CI/CD, DevOps, SRE collaboration, production stability, architectural remediation, and alignment with enterprise architecture strategy while reducing technical debt

Other highly valued skills include:

• Banking domain experience in Loans, Deposits, or Servicing platforms

• Experience with real‑time, async processing and high‑throughput event driven systems

• Cloud and platform design experience on AWS, Azure, or internal PaaS

• Ability to operate effectively across architecture, delivery, and operations—owning outcomes end‑to‑end

• Comfort working within enterprise governance and compliance frameworks while still enabling delivery speed

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while 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 behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational 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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation 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 the business strategies.
• 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.
• 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.