Strategic Cloud & AI Solution Architect

Barclays Bank Plc; Sworton Heath; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Bank Plc is seeking a Solution Architect within Cards and Payments to drive architectural design for resilience, insider threat, and related projects. You will collaborate with Business Analysts to produce solution designs and champion the architecture strategy across infrastructure, data, and software engineering domains.

The role requires strong leadership, ability to balance technology risk with business delivery, and experience communicating with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise-scale infrastructure and integration, cloud and on-premise architectures.
• Strong security mindset aligned with resiliency and governance.
• Proven technical leadership and ability to influence at CxO level.
• Experience in risk, controls, and architectural governance are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions that can evolve as products, aligning with business requirements.
• Apply workload placement strategies to maximise cloud elasticity, serverless, and containerisation benefits.
• Incorporate security principles and risk mitigations into architecture designs.
• Balance risks and controls to deliver business and technology value.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to produce solution designs and satisfy governance processes.

Skills

Infrastructure & integration

Cloud & on‑premise

Security best practice

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management (CxO)

Data architecture

Job description

Barclays Bank Plc is seeking a Solution Architect within Cards and Payments to drive architectural design for resilience, insider threat, and related projects. You will collaborate with Business Analysts to produce solution designs and champion the architecture strategy across infrastructure, data, and software engineering domains.

The role requires strong leadership, ability to balance technology risk with business delivery, and experience communicating with senior stakeholders.