PBWM Platforms Architect — Enterprise Integration

Barclays; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a senior Architect to set direction for the bank's most complex IT systems within the PBWM Architecture team. You will lead solution architects and influence delivery across engineering, risk and business stakeholders, ensuring reuse, security and scalability.

The role requires deep expertise in APIs, event streaming, orchestration vs choreography, and channel decoupling, with strong governance and collaboration across CIO/COO levels.

Qualifications

• Significant experience operating as a senior Solution Architect or equivalent senior leadership role.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale integration fabrics exposing business capabilities to client, colleague and AI/agentic channels.
• Experience defining architecture patterns for APIs, event streaming, messaging, webhooks and asynchronous processing.
• Experience establishing channel decoupling strategies separating customer journeys from systems of record.
• Deep understanding of orchestration versus choreography patterns and their appropriate application.
• Experience translating strategic architecture direction and project delivery demands into practical solutions.
• Passion for designing solutions that deliver simplification, reuse, consistency, scalability, security and performance in line with architecture standards.
• Robust stakeholder management and communication skills across engineers, technology leaders, risk and business stakeholders up to CIO/COO.
• Experience operating within large, complex and regulated financial services environments.

Responsibilities

• Set the bank's strategic architecture direction for specialist technology areas, e.g. trading platforms.
• Provide deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex architectures to stakeholders, coordinating solution architects.
• Manage innovative design and engineering initiatives across the bank to resolve complex problems.
• Develop and promote architectural standards, governance policies to ensure consistency and regulatory compliance.
• Identify emerging tech trends and implement solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Maintain advisor relationships with business partners, architects and engineering teams to drive outcomes.
• Advocate for optimal solutions with clear communication to support architectural decisions.
• Support engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor staff and grow knowledge.

Skills

Senior leadership

Enterprise integration

API patterns

Event streaming

Channel decoupling

Orchestration vs choreography

Stakeholder management

Regulated environment

Job description

Barclays is seeking a senior Architect to set direction for the bank's most complex IT systems within the PBWM Architecture team. You will lead solution architects and influence delivery across engineering, risk and business stakeholders, ensuring reuse, security and scalability.

The role requires deep expertise in APIs, event streaming, orchestration vs choreography, and channel decoupling, with strong governance and collaboration across CIO/COO levels.