If you’re thinking about moving forward in your career, then join Barclays. You will work as the face of the company as you work with customers to ensure complete customer satisfaction.
Barclaycards Payment Solutions (BPS) is responsible for supporting a wide range of business from large corporates to prosumers with taking payments. BPS’s approach supports face-to-face, over the phone, online and mobile, including in-app transactions. BPS is responsible for Barclaycards payment acceptance network and is the second largest acquirer in Europe.
The Lead Solutions Designer will manage a team of architects covering software, infrastructure, hosting and security. You will work with wider senior stakeholders to maintain a technical roadmap, creating solutions to meet business requirements.
This is a really exciting role for someone who has a track record in payment solutions and wants to be involved in improving systems that deal with over £700 million trades a day.
• Lead a team of architects to create technology solutions, and stage 0 costs, to meet business requirements in line with strategies and architectures
• Adding clarity to business requirements, challenges business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created
• Identify common or duplicate needs across functions
• Work with PM’s and Global Tech Sourcing to advise on supplier and cost options, ensure validity of the overall solutions is fully represented and considered in any RFI process
• Responsible for ensuring that solutions adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies
• Able to rationalise between different solution options in a complex environment and define pros and cons.
• Proven track record building and designing high volume transaction processing systems
• Exposure of architecting the move of application into the cloud (AWS preferred)
• Able to refactor monolithic applications into a microservices / domain driven architecture
• Used to leading and mentoring a team of multi-disciplines architects.
• Able to define architecture roadmaps appropriate to different audiences
• Excellent stakeholder management, able to liaise and manage senior business executives
• Exposure working with end customers (external) to support roadmap conversations.
Barclays Fleet is a technology hub supporting key services for Barclays and Barclaycard. Our Fleet colleagues provide the support required for Barclaycard to process 18 million transactions worth more than £700 million every day, and make sure that 196 Barclaycard payments every second happen seamlessly. The Fleet office is a 2 minute walk from the train station, and is easily reached by train (40 minutes to Waterloo and 18 minutes to Woking) or car.
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