VP Solution Architect – Front-Office & AI Cloud

Barclays; Jefferson Park (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Solution Architect - VP to design, develop, and implement scalable solutions for Markets Sales in Whippany, NJ. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate with stakeholders, and balance technology risks with business delivery to advance Barclays' trading platforms.

You will lead multi-year initiatives, articulating non-functional requirements, migration paths, and governance artefacts, while leveraging AI patterns and modern cloud-based architectures for

Qualifications

• Experience designing front-office or Markets technology solutions across Sales workflows, client onboarding, trading enablement, and post-trade handoffs.
• Strong workflow design knowledge across lifecycle states, approvals, maker-checker, and monitoring.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms with reusable services and clear migration paths.
• Familiarity with applied AI patterns such as extraction, summarization, semantic search, routing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to explain architecture with diagrams, trade-offs, and non-functional requirements including CI/CD, observability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions as products that can evolve to meet business requirements.
• Apply cloud capabilities like elasticity, serverless, and containers.
• Incorporate security principles and governance requirements into designs.
• Balance risks and controls to deliver business and technology value.
• Assist operational support teams with fault finding and performance issues.

Skills

Sales workflows

Client onboarding

Trading enablement

Post-trade handoffs

Workflow design

Lifecycle states

Audit trails

Legacy modernization

Reusable services

Canonical data models

Applied AI patterns

Java microservices

REST APIs

Event-driven architecture

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Resiliency

Performance optimization

Tools

Camunda

BPMN workflow modeling

Kafka

Event-driven messaging

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Solution Architect - VP to design, develop, and implement scalable solutions for Markets Sales in Whippany, NJ. You will drive architecture decisions, collaborate with stakeholders, and balance technology risks with business delivery to advance Barclays' trading platforms.

You will lead multi-year initiatives, articulating non-functional requirements, migration paths, and governance artefacts, while leveraging AI patterns and modern cloud-based architectures for