Solution Designer

Job Title : 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

Hybrid Working

BUK & BX - All locations

Introduction:
In today’s complex business environment, an organisation’s adaptability, agility, and ability to manage constant change through innovation can be key to success. Barclays achieve goals through projects that translate business needs into new products, services, and profits. Solution Designer can make it all happen more efficiently and effectively.

What will you be doing?
- Work directly with other engineering and architecture functions, business and technology stakeholders to deliver fit for purpose and strategic technical solutions/plans, in particular those initiatives that drive modernisation, re-platforming and large scale change/transformation
- Guide and mentor other architects and designers
- Responsible for ratifying technology solutions, producing concise Design documents, including Source to Target mappings, data manipulation / processing logic, estimates, to meet solution requirements, in line with team and group Strategies and Architectures
- Responsible for ensuring that the build outcomes delivered by our teams are consistent with produced designs meeting requested solution.
- Great leader and good mentor, Ownership of defect triage, review code & contribute as required.
- Continue to build, extend, innovative next generation banking solutions and capabilities.
- Working closely with CTO, CISO, Engineering function and other teams in order to deliver solutions at highest standards.
- Takes responsibility for ensuring that solutions adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies.
- Able to rationalise between different solution options and define pros and cons based on a driving forces from a commercial, operational and technology viewpoint.
- Ability to create fit for purpose technology solutions which address the combined challenges of: meeting business need, deliverable within reasonable constraints, correspond to organisational strategic guidance
- Excellent understanding of best practice architectural and design methods with proven innovative and leading edge thinking (e.g. Domain Driven Architecture, building for resilience, scalability, performance, etc.)
- Good broad understanding of a wide variety of technologies and patterns, including emerging, cutting edge trends. (e.g. AWS, Java, Adaptive and Responsive design, Infrastructure as Code, IaaS, PaaS, APIs etc.)

What we’re looking for:
Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Experience delivering commercially viable solutions in a regulated environment.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available, resilient performant solutions.
- Experience of working in an Agile environment.
- Knowledge of architectural design patterns and concepts including MVC and domain-driven design.
- Ability to clarify requirements with stakeholders to resolve gaps, uncertainties and conflicts.
- Ability to demonstrate previous evidence of drive, energy, commitment, and enthusiasm.
- Experience in Systems Architecture or Technology Solution Design
- Hands on experience in JEE frameworks e.g. Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JPA or other ORM frameworks. Hands on experience on Web Services (SOAP, REST).
- Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking mind-set
- Strong Stakeholder Management, able to communicate at all levels and drive wider collaboration.
- Excellent people management skills including workload delegation and training/development.
- Define and drive strategy and best practice
- Ability to decide on better technical options and drive the adoption at organization level.

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value