Lead Architect - Resilience

Job Description

As a Barclays Lead Architect - Resilience, you will play an important role in architecting and developing enterprise scale applications on various hosting environments throughout the Barclays group. A significant part of the role will be driving new standardsfor resilience, working with risk and control teams developing solutions to meet new standards as they are developed. There will also be opportunities for secondments to mission critical programmes throughout Barclays Group with a specific focus on engineeringfor resilience. Barclays is one of the worlds largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creatingfinancial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted Working FlexiblyWere committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity forall our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers and clients needs. Whether you have family commitments or youre a carer, or whether you need studytime or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to businessneeds. We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Were flexible on how thisworks and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues maychoose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances.Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager. What will you be doing Innovating resilience by working with controls teams own the Group Resilience Standard and building patterns and reference implementations to support those standards Progressing the organisations development practices and resilience strategy by delivering guidance, patterns, and reference implementations Ensuring best in class application design is baked into group wide mission critical applications Conducting application assessments with confidence, structuring, and owning failure mode analysis assessments across the firm to identify fault-points/modes Developing best practices for architecting resilience applications throughout the Barclays group Documenting best practice guidance and patterns for resilience application design and engineering Publishing guidance in a new group wide content management system for architects and engineers and then supporting engineering teams implement those patterns Seconding to mission critical programmes throughout Barclays Group with a specific focus on engineering for resilience What were looking for: A senior architect with demonstrable experience managing enterprise scale developments Developer experience and understanding in implementing resilience disciplines across a full stack (code, database, network, hosting environment, security, monitoring & deployment) Experience and understanding in deploying applications across multiple datacentres/availability zones/regions Familiarity with resiliency testing techniques such as Failure Injection and Chaos Testing Skills that will help you in the role: Awareness of deployment techniques that limit impact of failure (e.g. blue/green & canary) and enable fast recovery with low MTTD & MTTR Inc. use of playbooks and automation Experience developing solutions deployed across multiple cloud regions, understanding of enterprise patterns, micro services, and passionate view on the future direction of technology This role requires an individual with a track record as an individual contributor as well as proven leadership experience Good communication skills are essential as the role involves dealing with stakeholders, system owners and the departments project managers Where will you be workingYou will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful greenenvironment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops. #LI - Hybrid #architecture