[ref. u55444924] Barclays - Senior JAVA Platform Engineering Architect (1 year relevant experience required)

Join us as a VP Lead JAVA Engineer within the Core Services Team where you will be responsible for leading great engineering across our new platform services and products. An exciting opportunity for an experienced technologist, you will drive the delivery of our core cloud-based platform which is used by multiple client-facing applications.

• A track record of building enterprise-scale applications using Java and Spring Boot frameworks
• Experience building event-driven services using Kafka or similar technologies
• Comprehensive understanding of API and Microservice design patterns backed up by experience delivering and running the services you have built in production
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CICD pipelines and software quality metrics

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of our Northampton office.

**Purpose of the role**

To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyze data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete, and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehouses and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.