Solution Architect

Embark your transformative journey with Barclays Vice President - Solution Architect. You have to apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them. The lead Solution Architect wil required to do development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience. Additionally, monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning. It is also required to do collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

To be successful as a Solution Architect, you should have experience with:

• Experience with Cloud Architecture Expertise: Public Cloud: Strong knowledge of major public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for hybrid or multi-cloud deployments, including services like compute, storage, and networking and Hybrid Cloud: Ability to integrate private and public clouds for scalability, cost-efficiency, and resilience.

• Solid understanding of DevOps Practices:Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps) to enable rapid, reliable deployment of banking applications and infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills using tools like Terraform or Ansible for automated provisioning and management.

• Hands on containerization and orchestration expertise (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for microservices-based architectures common in banking products.

• Must have skill banking domain knowledge: Understanding of banking regulations and compliance standards (e.g., PCIR, INDIA, UAE & APAC payments regulations) to ensure solutions meet legal and security requirements and should have familiarity with core banking systems, payment processing (e.g., RTGS, UPI, NEFT, IMPS, Cross Border, UAE local scheme, NPSS, etc ), and financial APIs (e.g., Open Banking standards).

• Good Understanding of Banking product offerings such as Payments, DDA, Lending, Internet Banking etc.

• Needs hands on security and risk management: Knowledge of securing cloud environments (e.g., encryption, identity access management, firewalls, etc) to protect sensitive financial data and experience with risk assessment and mitigation strategies in cloud and DevOps workflows.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Cloud Professional Architect.

• Vendor-specific private cloud certifications (e.g., VMware VCP, Red Hat Openshift).

• Experience with serverless computing (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions) for cost-effective, scalable banking microservices.

• Knowledge of blockchain or distributed ledger technology for secure transaction systems.

• Familiarity with AI/ML integration for fraud detection or customer analytics in banking.

• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) for real-time system performance tracking.

• Proficiency in GitOps workflows for streamlined deployments.

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 skill.

This role is for Pune Location.

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.

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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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 control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.