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Business Architect - Tesco Bank
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Business Architect - Tesco Bank
Business Architect – Tesco Bank within Barclays (Edinburgh)
About the Role
Hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this key position.
Join Tesco Bank within Barclays as a Business Architect, where you’ll help shape the future of banking by developng and evolving the bank’s enterprise technology architecture. Your responsibilities will include defining and delivering solutions, strategies, and execution plans that align with business and technology priorities. Operating at an enterprise-wide level, you’ll bridge the gap between business strategy, operating models, customer journeys, and technology capabilities, ensuring strategic objectives are achieved.
Your work will involve:
- Shaping the interface between business and technology strategy.
- Driving the adoption and evolution of foundational platforms and products.
- Providing strategic architectural leadership for long-term organisational transformation and growth.
Key Accountabilities
- Technology Strategy & Architecture
- Develop, evolve, and implement the bank’s technology architecture aligned with business and technology objectives, unlocking execution and operational run capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, enterprise architecture teams, and developers to provide subject-matter expertise and foster continuous improvement.
- Assess new technologies to address current and future business needs through problem-solving and innovation.
- Determine optimal technical solutions while balancing compliance, governance, security, and funding requirements.
- Monitor application performance, resiliency, and stability, resolving issues and communicating findings to stakeholders.
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Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead diverse teams of technologists, business, operations, and enterprise leaders in aligning business and technology strategy.
- Motivate and mentor colleagues, ensuring high performance and continuous improvement in standards.
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Regulatory & Governance Compliance
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and identify industry developments to enhance the bank’s controls and application portfolio.
- Support engineering and architecture initiatives, mentoring juniors and enhancing operational efficiency.
Vice President Expectations
The role encompasses both leading teams and individual contributor responsibilities:
If Managing a Team
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Contribute to or set strategy, define requirements, and recommend changes.
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Plan resources, budgets, and policies, while managing and maintaining them.
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Deliver continuous improvements, ensuring compliance with policies and escalating breaches accordingly.
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Define roles and responsibilities, future-proof team operations, and counsel employees on performance and career development.
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Influence departmental operations in alignment with strategic and tactical goals using short- and long-term planning, balancing budgets/schedules with corporate requirements.
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LEAD Behaviours (if applicable):
- Listen and be authentic
- Energise and inspire
- Align across the enterprise
- Develop others
If as an Individual Contributor
- Act as a subject-matter expert, guiding the technical direction of multi-year assignments.
- Drive collaborative initiatives, identifying opportunities for cross-specialisation and influencing long-term strategic decisions.
- Train and mentor less experienced professionals while ensuring alignment with ** organisational risks and profitability**.
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Key Responsibilities
- Advise key stakeholders (including senior leadership) on functional and cross-functional impacts.
- Managing and mitigating risks, supporting control and governance frameworks.
- Demonstrate deep functional knowledge to drive business goals through informed, analytical decision-making.
- Collaborate across departments to stay abreast of business strategies and activities.
- Develop innovative, research-driven solutions by evaluating complex alternatives.
- Build and maintain trusting external and internal relationships, leveraging influencing and negotiation skills.
Requirements
To succeed as a Business Architect, you must have:
Essential Skills:
- Proven experience as a Business Architect, aligning business strategy, operating models, capabilities, and technology outcomes across an enterprise.
- Strategic thinking and planning, translating long-term business objectives into actionable architectures, roadmaps, and transformation.
- Strong collaborative and stakeholder management skills, building influential relationships across business, technology, and senior leadership.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, simplifying complex concepts for diverse audiences.
Critical Assessments:
Your ability in the following areas may be evaluated:
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen and strategic thinking
- Digital and technology expertise
Location:
This role is based in Edinburgh.
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