Solution Architect - Cards & Payments (Cloud & Security)

Barclays; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Solution Architect to lead architectural design within Cards and Payments, covering resilience, insider threat, and data/software engineering aspects. You’ll collaborate with Business Analysts to produce solution designs while aligning with the bank’s architecture strategy.

The role requires strong technical leadership, stakeholder management at CxO level, knowledge of cloud and on-premise architectures, and an aptitude for learning new technologies including AI and

Qualifications

• Experience in designing enterprise-scale architectures.
• Ability to balance security and business delivery requirements.
• Experience collaborating with business analysts to produce solution designs.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions as products that can evolve with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
• Apply cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, and containerisation to maximise value.
• Incorporate security principles and resiliency requirements into architecture designs.
• Balance risks and controls to deliver business and technology value.
• Develop architecture artefacts required for governance processes (privacy, security, records management).

Skills

Infra & integration

Cloud & on-prem

Security best practices

CxO stakeholder mgmt

Technical leadership

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Solution Architect to lead architectural design within Cards and Payments, covering resilience, insider threat, and data/software engineering aspects. You’ll collaborate with Business Analysts to produce solution designs while aligning with the bank’s architecture strategy.

The role requires strong technical leadership, stakeholder management at CxO level, knowledge of cloud and on-premise architectures, and an aptitude for learning new technologies including AI and