Digital Transformation and Solution Architecture - VP

About the Role

Embark on a transformative journey as a leader driving the architectural strategy behind Barclays' cloud modernization efforts. In this pivotal role, you will shape scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that accelerate the bank’s digital transformation, working alongside senior technology and business stakeholders to modernize critical platforms, leverage cloud-native capabilities, and deliver innovative customer experiences. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology strategies, support high-impact transformation programs, and leave a lasting mark on one of the world’s leading financial institutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective AWS solutions, including cloud-native architectures, disaster recovery, and enterprise integration.
• Oversee large-scale migration programs, including workload assessment, modernization, migration planning, and portfolio transformation while minimizing risk.
• Define long-term architecture strategy, align technology investments with business targets, and drive modernization roadmaps.
• Influence senior executives, present architectural recommendations, build consensus, and drive outcomes across business and technology teams.
• Leverage CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud security, observability, APIs, event-driven architecture, and platform engineering to accelerate secure modernization.
• Ensure cloud solutions meet security, regulatory, resilience, and governance requirements through partnership with Risk, Cyber Security, Compliance, Legal, and Audit teams.
• Build business cases, optimize cloud costs, oversee technology investments, and demonstrate measurable value from modernization programs.
• Build and mentor high-performing architecture and engineering teams, establish standards, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Provide subject matter expertise to support collaboration between product owners and technical teams in product development.
• Support the development and implementation of product strategy and vision, communicating them to stakeholders and development teams.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather, prioritize, and define product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility.
• Develop and implement assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimization that meet the bank’s performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and evaluate new approaches to improve product development and delivery.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to team activities.
• Collaborate with other business areas to align support functions with business strategies and goals.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

Requirements

• Design and governance of AWS solutions, including cloud-native architectures, disaster recovery, and enterprise integration.
• Experience overseeing large-scale migration programs, including workload assessment, modernization, and migration planning.
• Ability to define long-term architecture strategy and align technology investments with business targets.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive outcomes across business and technology teams.
• Proficiency in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud security, observability, APIs, event-driven architecture, and platform engineering.
• Experience ensuring cloud solutions meet security, regulatory, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Ability to build business cases, optimize cloud costs, and demonstrate measurable value from modernization programs.
• Experience building and mentoring high-performing teams and fostering a culture of innovation.
• Strong collaboration skills with product owners and technical teams in product development.
• Ability to develop and implement product strategy and vision, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Experience gathering, prioritizing, and defining product requirements based on business value and feasibility.
• Ability to develop assessments for continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Experience monitoring product performance and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Knowledge of the latest industry technology trends and ability to evaluate new approaches.
• Leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
• Ability to collaborate across business areas and align support functions with business strategies.
• Strong analytical skills to create solutions based on complex alternatives.
• Ability to build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements; and escalate breaches.
• If managing a team: define jobs and responsibilities, plan for future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions.
• Lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short- and long-term goals while meeting corporate requirements.
• For individual contributors: serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, and lead collaborative, multi-year assignments.
• Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long-term profits and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership and senior management, on functional and cross-functional impacts.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Adopt outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish business objectives.

Skills

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology expertise
• Job-specific technical skills

Location

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Pay

Base salary range: $170,000 – $230,000. This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

Barclays Values and Mindset

• Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship
• Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive