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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive architecture experience within regulated financial institutions, with a strong focus on Investment Banking domain knowledge. Capable of leading complex projects, influencing senior stakeholders, and applying advanced technologies such as AI and analytics to enhance enterprise platforms.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Investment Banking Architecture ExperienceAI And Advanced Analytics ImplementationCloud And Hybrid Workload StrategiesModern Integration Patterns ExpertiseRegulatory And Resilience Requirements Knowledge
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Hard Skills
Architecture DesignSolution DesignEngineering In Distributed EnvironmentsLegacy Platform ModernizationData Flow AnalysisRisk AssessmentWorkload Placement StrategiesIntegration PatternsPerformance Issue ResolutionBudgeting And Policy Creation
Soft Skills
Stakeholder EngagementLeadershipCoaching And DevelopmentNegotiationAnalytical Thinking
Tools & Technologies
AzureAWSGCPAPIsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesContainerizationServerless ComputingIntelligent Automation
Industry Keywords
Investment BankingRegulated Financial InstitutionsGovernance ProcessesCIO-Level EngagementArchitecture Capability Uplift
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, develop and implement solutions to complex business problems
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and requirements and deliver balanced technology solutions
- Define and maintain Investment Banking target architecture covering capabilities, applications, data, integration and security
- Translate business strategy, regulatory change and technology priorities into actionable roadmaps and design principles
- Provide leadership to Solution Architects and Product Managers
- Work directly with engineering teams on complex design and delivery challenges, including NFRs, integration, resilience and workload placement
- Drive adoption and evolution of standard platforms
- Apply workload placement strategies and cloud capabilities including elasticity, serverless and containerisation
- Incorporate security principles and meet resiliency expectations
- Balance risks and controls to deliver business and technology value
- Support operational teams with fault finding and performance issues
- Assess solution design impact on risk, capacity and cost, including project change and ongoing run costs
- Produce architecture inputs and design artefacts for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance
- Influence CIO-level technology investment and simplification decisions
- Introduce and embed AI, analytics and intelligent automation in enterprise platforms
- Lead architectural maturity, shape standards and uplift capability across the Investment Banking domain
- Manage strategic initiatives, complex projects, resourcing, budgeting and policy creation
- Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and develop architecture capability across teams
- Engage with regulators and advocacy groups when appropriate
- Act as principal contact for key clients and counterparts and spokesperson for the function
Requirements
What you’ll need- Extensive architecture experience within large-scale, regulated financial institutions, with strong Investment Banking domain knowledge
- Deep understanding of Investment Banking front-to-back processes, data flows and associated control points
- Proven ability to influence and engage CIO-level and senior business stakeholders with clear architectural judgement
- Hands-on experience delivering architecture, solution design or engineering in complex, distributed environments
- Practical experience applying AI, advanced analytics or intelligent automation within enterprise platforms
- Experience modernising legacy Investment Banking platforms and simplifying fragmented technology estates
- Strong understanding of regulatory and resilience requirements relevant to Investment Banking
- Familiarity with cloud and hybrid workload strategies across Azure / AWS / GCP
- Expertise in modern integration patterns—APIs, event-driven architectures, distributed systems
- Experience coaching, developing or uplifting architecture capability across teams
- Ability to manage a business function and contribute to function-wide strategic initiatives
- Ability to lead complex and critical strategic projects
- Ability to provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees
- Ability to manage resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
- Ability to ensure compliance with regulations and governance processes
- Advanced analytical and interpretative thinking to solve complex or sensitive problems
- Ability to negotiate with and influence senior internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate Barclays Values, Mindset and LEAD leadership behaviours