Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of enterprise‑wide technology architecture management and its connection to the achievement of business strategy.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross‑functional alignment.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, analytical capability, and technology awareness.
• Ability to communicate complex strategic architectural concepts in clear, business‑oriented language.
• Experience in large‑scale, regulated, and complex enterprise environments.
• Expert in exec-level communications.

Purpose of the role

The Strategy Lead for Enterprise Architecture is responsible for shaping, evolving, and communicating the long‑term technology strategy and architecture direction for the organisation. The role ensures that strategic priorities, architectural principles, roadmaps, and technology investment decisions remain tightly aligned to business goals and future enterprise needs.

Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise‑wide and business unit architecture strategies aligned to business and technology priorities.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business strategy into actionable architectural direction and investment recommendations.
• Foster a focus on the value enabled and delivered through the strategic application of technology to improve group-wide capabilities.
• Drive alignment across domains, architects, and platform teams, promoting consistency in standards, patterns, and decision‑making.
• Communicate strategy, architectural intent, and technology direction clearly across business and technology communities, from engineering to board, regulator, and investor level.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.