Solution Architect

Join us as a Solution Architect - Corporate Real Estate Services Technology at Barclays, where you'll take part in the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders.

To be successful as a Solution Architect - Corporate Real Estate Services Technology, you should have experience with:

• Set and drive the strategic architecture direction for specialist technology areas, with particular focus on managing our extensive SaaS application landscape. Provide deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex technology architectures to stakeholders, including overseeing and coordinating solution SaaS supplier architects.
• Expertise in internet of things devices and edge computing is crucial for data processing and control.
• Deep knowledge of building systems such as BMS-building management system, HVAC, lighting control, and security
• Lead innovative design, engineering initiatives and complex technology projects through collaboration with technical experts across the bank to resolve complex problems, explore AI/ML, GenAI opportunities that support the bank's technology strategy for Digital Corporate Real Estate.
• Ensure adherence to the bank's architectural standards, guidelines and governance policies to maintain consistency, quality and compliance, supporting the mitigation of various risks including breaches, unauthorized access and regulatory violations.
• Identify emerging technological trends within CRES, patterns and innovations that may impact the CRES Business and implement potential solutions that align with the bank's strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain advisor relationships with business partners, architects and engineering teams to drive successful design, adoption and engineering outcomes.
• Advocate for optimal solutions that address the bank's technological needs through clear and compelling communication to support architectural decisions.
• Support engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members and project managers, streamline operations, and share and grow knowledge.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Deep expertise in workplace technology, smart building platforms, smart workspace and a good understanding of IT infrastructure and enterprise architecture concepts.
• Strong analytical skills to integrate complex data from various sources and use data-driven insights to inform real estate and design decisions.
• The ability to manage complex projects, translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders (e.g., real estate teams, architects, integrated tech teams and business leaders), and manage vendor relationships.

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.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.