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Solution Architect - Network Automation

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted May 17, 2026
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Join us on a transformative journey as a Solution Architect-Network Automation, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.The Barclays Automation & Tools Engineering team is responsible for the design, build and operate of the underlying network infrastructure and toolchain across cloud, data centre, campus and branch that are required to run the Barclays Global Network at scale.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency
  • 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

  • Demonstrable experience in design and implementation of solutions for Orchestration and Activation of resources/services using industry standard Catalogue models like YANG, TOSCA, HEAT templates, YAML based automation for example Ansible
  • Product development experience. Experience with Python Programming, Micro services architecture, FasAPI, Ansible or Terraform experience. Experience with Netmiko or similar network automation libraries including Netconf/Yang based Automation
  • Understanding of network technology fundamentals, Data Structures, scalable system design and ability to translate information in a structured manner for wider product and engineering teams to translate into working solution

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of DevOps tooling, GitOps, CI/CD, configuration management, Jenkins, build pipelines and source control systems
  • Ample Network knowledge (CCNA or similar), Virtualisation/Infrastructure domain experience preferred. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services: compute, storage, networking, hybrid connectivity, monitoring/logging, security and IAM
  • Proficiency in Agile Methodologies - Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow management

What we offer

  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution
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