Solutions Architect

Job Title : Solutions Architect
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:

- Design and architect the functional and technical solution by front facing business and other stakeholders; that align with latest architecture and strategy within the Bank
- Creates technology solutions at an initial level of detail, to meet business requirements for medium to large scale projects, in line with Group IT Strategies & Architectures, and tech domains:

- Adding clarity to business requirements
- Translating business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements
- Supporting project definition
- Identifying common or duplicated needs across landscape
- Work with product, operations team, and business group to understand and gather requirements
- Collaborate with architecture, security, infrastructure, data, and other component teams to design end-to-end solution to the business requirements
- Applies innovative thinking to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives in line Group Architecture standards and tech domains, rather than just responding to a pre-defined request
- Produce Solution documentation to a high standard that clearly articulates solution covering functional, non-functional, with focus on Infrastructure views, operations views, alerting and monitoring, resiliency
- Reviewing detailed design, test strategy, scope and test scenarios
- Supports effective transition of the solution requirement into the Governance and Change model
- Via oversight, maintains ownership of the design throughout the development process
- Supports design & architecture development and governance activities
- Maintains detailed awareness of, takes fully into account as necessary, and promotes throughout the organisation, any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations, standards and codes of good practice. Contributes as appropriate to the definition of such regulations, standards and codes
- Maintains knowledge of relevant technical specialists at the highest level, by reading appropriate literature, attending conferences and seminars, meeting and maintaining contact with other leading practitioners of the technical specialism and though playing a major role in appropriate learned, professional and trade bodies
- Takes responsibility for architectural adherence, quality standards and policies
- Escalate risks and issues that emerge from requirements gathering and solution design to governance forum
- Conducts Failure Mode Engineering Analysis to identify design hot spots
- Maintains Tech Debt Catalogue
- Support in data analysis for problem identification and resolution

Strategy Development
- Supports the creation of appropriate strategies for Corporate Digital Banking
- Supports the planning process to ensure interdependencies are understood and that the proposed plan is viable
- Influences the relevant business strategy to maximise the effective use of technology

Key Relationships
- CTO - Enterprise Architect
- Solution Architects in various business area that contribute to the solution
- Chief Security Office, Run the Bank leads
- Billing Development teams, Product Managers, Operations
- Wider development teams who contribute to the initiative
- Relevant Vendor who develop the solutions

What will you be doing?
- Undertake analysis with stakeholders to discover business needs and requirements
- Drive concept solutions playing a techno functional role to bring new ideas to life, enable the definition of high-level business and operational architectures and designs
- Work with Business, Product, Operations and other stakeholders using standard techniques to drive high level solutions
- Deliver Solutions with appropriate quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the project plan.
- Investigate alternate business solutions to issues/challenges and represent these business solutions for agreement
- Write Product Vision and Architecture Vision documents to highlight the impact of each deliverable to the overall Billing technology estate, and operational processes
- Be responsible for representing the above artefacts at governance forum as per standard Barclays Technology processes

What we’re looking for:

- Should have strong interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to work with multiple component teams to come-up with desired end-to-end solution
- Own the task independently