Vice President Enterprise Architect

As a Vice President Enterprise Architect, you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to transforming practices and applications into modern, resilient, agile, and efficient systems that accelerate business strategy. This role spans across the Risk, Finance, and Treasury business units, encompassing over 300 applications. Collaborating with CIO delivery teams, you will oversee the adoption of cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI and data mesh platforms, while applying modern design practices and robust architectural governance. To be a successful Vice President Enterprise Architect, you should have experience with demonstrating strong governance leading to robust architectural decisions aligned with business and technology strategy. You should be skilled in developing target state architectures and roadmaps supporting enterprise transformation. Experience in modern application design, including containers, micro-services, event-based architecture, and cloud, is essential. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are needed to influence business and technology stakeholders. Additional relevant skills highly valued for this role include understanding of financial products, services, and regulatory environments (such as Basel IV), proficiency in embedding security, data privacy, and compliance into architectural decisions, and exposure to AI / ML to transform services in an enterprise environment. Key critical skills relevant for success in this role include risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. The purpose of this role is to design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements. Accountabilities include designing and developing solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements aligning with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. Solutions should balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. Vice President Expectations involve contributing or setting strategy, driving requirements, making recommendations for change, planning resources, budgets, and policies, managing and maintaining policies/processes, delivering continuous improvements, and escalating breaches of policies/procedures. For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline, guiding technical direction, leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members, training less experienced specialists, and providing information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions. Advice to key stakeholders, managing and mitigating risks through assessment, and demonstrating leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls are also part of the expectations. Comprehensive understanding of the organization functions, collaboration with other areas of work, creating solutions based on analytical thought, seeking out, building, and maintaining trusting relationships with stakeholders are essential aspects of the role. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.,