Barclays Investment Bank · 21 hours ago
Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP
745 7th Avenue, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $230K/yrBarclays Investment Bank is seeking a Prime Risk Platform Architect - VP to drive the architecture of a modern Client Risk Management platform. The role involves designing a low-latency, high-throughput risk platform that delivers real-time analytics and risk management solutions across asset classes while collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment with the firm’s architecture standards.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions
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 organisation 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
Qualification
Required
Experience with software/platform engineering, with significant experience as a technical / solution architect on complex and distributed real time or near real time risk or trading systems with large data volumes
Expertise with AWS Well Architected Framework - EKS, MSK, EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudWatch, Step Functions with experience in designing high-availability multi-AZ designs
Experience with Spark Streaming with Python (PySpark) on EMR/EKS; Kafka architecture and tuning; Kubernetes microservices; Flink/Kinesis for low latency event processing and streaming ETL
Experience with designing S3 data lakes with Delta/Iceberg/Hudi, using Aurora Postgres/DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), Athena/Glue, and time series storage
Experience with Angular based real-time UI patterns; QuickSight/Power BI/Tableau
Preferred
Experience with LLM powered capabilities – chat interfaces integrated with RAG Pipelines, embeddings, and agentic workflows integrated with SageMaker pipelines
CloudWatch, Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana
Direct experience with prime brokerage / prime finance risk platforms or FO/MO risk tools (e.g., real time exposure, VaR/stress, PFE, or x asset risk engines)
Demonstrated influence and leadership across multiple squads/regions in a matrixed investment banking environment
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
Company
Barclays Investment Bank
Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions. It is a sub-organization of Barclays Corporate Banking.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Barclays Investment Bank has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2022 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Richard Lowe
Managing Director, Head of Large Corporate, UK
S
Sean White
Managing Director
Recent News
2025-12-29
2025-11-10
2025-11-10
Company data provided by crunchbase