Assistant Vice President Solutions Architect

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Glasgow is seeking an Assistant Vice President Solutions Architect to design, evolve and govern the bank’s target data architecture, including shared data environments and enterprise data models. You will ensure data is accurate, secure, and accessible to meet evolving stakeholder needs.

You will collaborate with product managers, engineering teams and governance forums to understand requirements, identify data debt, and drive improvements in data quality while upholding regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience with data architecture and governance in regulated environments.
• Ability to model data, identify improvements, and support data products.
• Knowledge of data security, privacy and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, evolve and govern the bank's target data architecture including shared data environments.
• Ensure data is accurate, secure and accessible for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and governance forums to support solution development.
• Assess risk and controls; contribute to policy development and governance improvements.

Skills

Risk & controls

Change & transformation

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Digital & technology

Communication & collaboration

Tools

AWS

Data Lake

Python

Shell

Oracle SQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Snowflake

Redshift

Cassandra

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

Accountabilities

Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms. Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.

Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations. Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value. Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.

Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling. Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.

Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

Join us at Barclays

As an Assistant Vice President Solutions architect, you will support the design, evolution and governance of the bank’s target data architecture. This includes shared data environments, enterprise data models and data standards aligned to business strategy.

In this role, you will contribute to ensuring data is accurate, secure, and accessible to meet the evolving needs of internal and external stakeholders.

To be successful as an Assistant Vice President Solutions architect, you should have experience with:

• Experience or exposure to data architecture or enterprise data modelling, ideally within financial services or a similar regulated environment.
• Supporting data product flows, including sourcing, lineage and control points to help improve data quality and consistency.
• Assisting in identifying technical data debt, architectural challenges, or control gaps and contributing to prioritised improvements with wider teams.
• A working understanding of banking products, risk frameworks, regulatory data requirements and financial markets data with a willingness to continue learning.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, including services like Lake Formation or Data Lake environments.
• Scripting skills (for example, Python or Shell) to support data validation, automation, or analysis.
• Familiarity with database systems, including relational (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), columnar (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake), and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Ample communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with product managers, engineering teams, governance forums, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and support solution development.

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

Location

This role is based in Glasgow.

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.