Process Architect

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Process Architect to join Barclays and make a significant impact on their Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio. The role offers a chance to leverage your expertise in process optimization and enterprise architecture to contribute to a robust, risk-based, and highly automated Financial Crime environment.

The Opportunity:

• Drive Impactful Change: You'll be instrumental in identifying and implementing process optimization opportunities, specifically focused on capacity creation within relevant business areas. This means directly contributing to increased efficiency and effectiveness across the organization.
• Shape Financial Crime Strategy: The IFC portfolio is a critical multi-faceted program aimed at strengthening financial crime prevention. As a Process Architect, you will play a key role in developing and evolving the bank's technology architecture, aligning it with business and technology objectives.
• Collaborate and Influence: This role demands strong collaboration with stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture teams, developers, and business partners. You'll have the opportunity to share knowledge, foster continuous improvement, and understand and deliver on technical needs.
• Strategic Problem-Solving: You'll be tasked with assessing new technologies, determining optimal solutions while balancing compliance, governance, security, and funding requirements, and understanding the interplay between business, data, and IT architectures.
• Develop and Grow: As a Process Architect, you'll contribute to the engineering and architecture community, mentoring team members, streamlining operations, and sharing knowledge, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.

Key Considerations for Your Career Path:

• Industry Expertise is Valued: A strong background in the financial industry, particularly within banking, is essential. Your validated experience in re-engineering and optimizing business processes for large financial institutions will be a significant asset.
• Deep Architectural Acumen: Extensive experience in Enterprise/Process Architecture, with a specialization in Business Architecture and Business Process Engineering, is crucial. A deep understanding of IT Architecture and its integration with business and data architectures is highly desirable.
• Broad Business Knowledge: While not always mandatory, knowledge of core banking products and operations, including Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Lending, Treasury, Trade Finance, Risk Management, and Back-Office Operations, will be highly advantageous. This breadth of understanding allows for more holistic and effective process solutions.
• Leadership Potential: The role outlines Assistant Vice President expectations, which can include leadership responsibilities. If you're looking to develop your leadership skills, this position offers opportunities to advise, influence, lead teams, and coach employees. For individual contributors, there's scope to lead collaborative assignments and guide team members.
• Focus on Risk and Controls: Success in this role will involve a strong understanding of risk and controls, change and transformation, and strategic thinking. You'll be expected to identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures.
• Embrace Barclays Values: As a colleague at Barclays, you'll be expected to embody the company's values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

This Process Architect position in Glasgow presents a compelling opportunity for professionals seeking to apply their strategic process and architectural skills within a leading financial institution, contributing directly to enhanced financial crime prevention and operational excellence.