Technology Architect

**Date live**:
05/15/2025
**Business Area**:
Markets Post Trade
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000038332
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Embark upon a transformative journey as a Technology Architect - Gen Artificial Intelligence Technology. At Barclays, we don’t just embrace change - we drive it. As a Technology Architect - Gen Artificial Intelligence Technology, you will design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
To be a successful Technology Architect - Gen Artificial Intelligence Technology, you should have experience of:
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and their respective AI/ML services. Monitor and evaluate the performance of generative AI models and systems. Implement improvements and optimizations as needed. Maintain comprehensive documentation of generative AI architectures, models, and processes. Ensure knowledge transfer and training for team members.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, GenAI Library. Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Comprehensive understanding of data privacy, security, and ethical considerations in AI development.
**Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued**:
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and devise efficient solutions.
Proven track record of successfully leading and delivering complex Gen AI/ML projects from inception to deployment.
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the capability to effectively convey technical concepts and ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in 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 is based in Pune.
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
Accountabilities
Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.
Vice President Expectations
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 leade