Solution Architect

**Date live**:
05/13/2025
**Business Area**:
GTIS
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000044399
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 on a transformative journey as Solution Architect
- Operational Support Systems. At Barclays we are committed to pushing boundaries. You will be working as end-to-end solution architecture in order management, inventory management, discovery & reconciliation, catalogue driven orchestration & activation, performance management and alarm management.
To be successful as Solution Architect
- Operational Support Systems, you should have experience with:
Extensive experience as an individual contributor and developing and integrating connectivity (fixed, wireless & cloud) OSS and BSS in the Network and Infrastructure services and products space from orchestration through to zero-touch operations.
Deep understanding of end-to-end solution architecture in order management, inventory management, discovery & reconciliation, catalogue driven orchestration & activation, performance management and alarm management.
Experience working with TMF open API specifications ( e.g.TMF640, TMF641, TMF633) and a deep understanding of Service concepts such as CFS, RFS characteristics, state, relationships dependencies etc.
**Good to have/valued skills**:
Expertise in designing OSS solutions from the ground up for SDN and NFV stacks.
Implementing and publishing APIs for Users to consume platform services in a consistent way.
You may be assessed on the 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 our Pune office.
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 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..
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