Senior Solutions Architect Job at Barclays (Whippany)

Senior Solutions Architect

Barclays

Location:
United States , Whippany

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

170000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Solutions Architect - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear — to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will spearhead the evolution of our global payments platform, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our payments solutions.

Job Responsibility:

Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms
Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations
Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value
Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate
Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling
Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs
Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes

Requirements:

Ample experience leading end-to-end architecture in the financial services industry and preferably payments domain
Hands-on technical role, focusing on designing, building, and deploying complex systems
Direct experience in building and deploying services in cloud environments. This includes infrastructure as code (IaC), serverless architectures, and understanding cloud-native best practices
Experience designing and implementing real-time event streaming architectures

Nice to have:

Ability to evaluate organizational needs, analyze constraints, and propose, implement, and maintain technology solutions resilient & scalable by design
Working in scaled agile teams to understand how to deliver iterative, high-quality technical solutions
Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Proven experience implementing and working with AI and Generative AI solutions

What we offer:

Medical
Dental
Vision coverage
401(k)
Life insurance
Paid leave for qualifying circumstances
Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 24, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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