Avp- Infrastructure Solution Designer

Job Title :AVP- Infrastructure Solution Designer

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

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

Hybrid Working
BUK & BX - All locations

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
The Infrastructure Designer will provide solutions and consultancy for assignments of medium size (£500K ~ £2M) and above which are complex and critical in nature. The infrastructure designer will have a deep knowledge in more than one component and a broad knowledge of many other components

What will you be doing?
- Takes full responsibility to ensure the infrastructure designs of a complex and critical nature meet the business requirements within the project's budget.
- To deliver all designs in a Lean and Agile manner where appropriate.
- To support the Inception of projects through Initiation Scrums giving advice and guidance where necessary.
- Ensure infrastructure designs are consistent, simple and effective complying with relevant strategy and policy.
- Work with Solutions to provide cost and risk analysis.
- Takes a key role in design evaluating and accessing major design options.
- Working with Enterprise and Solution Architects, Service Managers and Group Technology Office to understand and influence changes in architectures policies and strategy.
- Create and maintain necessary capability, knowledge and skills personally and to deliver world class Infrastructure Designs.
- Coaching and Mentoring of other Designers.
- Keeping knowledge of Barclays Infrastructure Products and Services current.
- Keeping knowledge of Supplier Infrastructure Products and Services current.
- Define and Champion the use of Technical Standards, Procedures and Best Practice.

Ensure compliance to all GTIS disciplines including:

- Enterprise Design Authority
- Technical Governance and Leadership around use of GTIS Infrastructure.
- Adherence to financial plans, processes and GTIS commitments.
- Compliance to all regulatory, risk and audit requirements and personal leadership on all related matters.

Operating as a leader within the GTIS Leadership Teams:

- Active contribution to the GTIS-wide direction and planning initiatives.
- Undertake work outside of direct responsibility when required on behalf of the GTIS leadership team.
- Represent GTIS both internally and externally to Barclays.
- Act as a mentor/coach for technical staff.

What we’re looking for:

- Broad experience of IT infrastructure design and architectures
- Capable of bringing together expert knowledge from across the organisation and consolidating into a cohesive end-to-end design
- A forward thinker
- The ability to effectively communicate and sell complex IT solutions
- Experience in leading virtual teams in a complex IT environment
- Effective cost management and commercial awareness
- Focus on Risk Management including an understanding of Group policies

Skills that will help you in the role:

- End-to-end infrastructure design experience
- Project delivery practices and methodologies

Where will you be working?

Pune

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Purpose, Values and Mindset

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