Job Description

Enterprise Architect
Radbroke

As an Enterprise Architect within Barclays, you will be working alongside the CIO delivery organisation providing technical architecture guidance and governance to the CIO and development teams to ensure that solutions will most effectively meet the business need and align with the group technology strategy principles, policies and standards on product choice and implementation patterns.

Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Contributing to multiyear architectural roadmap that leverages new technology, reduces total cost of ownership and simplifies the estate while being responsive to business change
• Ensuring that the roadmap and individual system architectures are consistent with our wider Barclays target architecture, our Data Strategy and our Technology Strategy
• Aligning the CIO book of work to deliver that roadmap over a multi-year period
• Ensuring architecture is thought through front to back including domains outside of your functional alignment and reviewed & governed in accordance with the TADS standard
• Creating a culture and technical environment for continuous improvement in developer productivity and delivery effectiveness
• Working with teams to develop systems that are efficient, resilient, secure, operable and take appropriate advantage of cloud capabilities and economics
• Working with solution architects and engineers from your designated Transaction Cycle to analyse and identify technical solutions to the architectural challenges specific to their areas.
• Ensuring that any CTO technology strategy papers address the needs and challenges of your functional alignment

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Expertise in shaping and defining Enterprise Architectures using a variety of technologies that achieve long-term business outcomes, keeping the technology estate simple and cost effective.
• Knowledge leading the design and implementation of enterprise systems in greenfield and brownfield environments
• Experience in developing domain driven design-based service-oriented architectures (SOA) including micro services, event driven and API first solutions
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent experience in a Computer Science, Mathematics or Scientific discipline

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Familiarity with various OS (e.g. Windows, UNIX, Mainframe) and DBs (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server), Big Data principles and cloud technologies, containerisation and cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
• Experience developing code (currently or in the past) and migrating existing applications to the Cloud
• Understanding of CICD principles and how these can be supported through cloud
• Formal qualification in architecture \xe2\x80\x93 e.g. TOGAF

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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