Strategic Solutions Architect - API & Cloud, Glasgow

Barclays

Glasgow

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 125,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Solutions Architect in Glasgow to shape the bank's digital and API ecosystem. You will define scalable, secure technology solutions, lead architectural decisions, and align with enterprise standards across products, channels, and engineering teams.

You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management and drive end-to-end architecture for complex programs, balancing business outcomes with risk and resilience.

Qualifications

Proven experience designing API-led/integration architectures (REST, OpenAPI).
Strong cloud-native, microservices and containerisation expertise.
Experience leading end-to-end solution architecture across programs.
Excellent stakeholder management with Product/Engineering leadership.
Experience operating within architecture governance and review boards.

Responsibilities

Design and develop solutions as products meeting modern software engineering practices.
Apply workload placement strategies and leverage cloud elasticity (serverless, containers).
Incorporate security principles and reduce risk (defense in depth).
Balance risks and business value, ensuring compliance with standards.
Engage governance boards and cross-team stakeholders to secure approvals.

Skills

API architecture

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices

DevOps / CI-CD

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

Security design

Tools

OpenAPI

OAuth / OIDC / CIAM

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management and drive end-to-end architecture for complex programs, balancing business outcomes with risk and resilience.

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