Lead Architect - AI & ML

Job Description

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as strong experience in delivery methodologies and organizational structures, background in complex delivery, operations and product engineering, excellent stakeholder management skills, communication skills focused on both technical and business language and the ability to measure the value of different approaches to technical problems as well as job-specific technical skills. Additional experience in architectural roles that have had broad applicability across financial services, experience in managing technical engagements to design and deliver positive outcomes in complex systems engineering and experience in AWS, AI/ML or payments is highly valued. This role will be based out of our Knutsford campus.Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

Requirements

· 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.

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