Solutions Architect - Pune, India - Barclays

Barclays
Barclays
Verified Company
Pune, India

2 weeks ago

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Job Title:
Solutions Architect


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
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working


Structured hybrid role:

Introduction:

  • Lead the functional and technical solution architecture and design by front facing business and other stakeholders; that align with latest architecture and strategy within the Bank.
  • Creates technology solutions at an initial level of detail, to meet business requirements for medium to large scale projects, in line with Group IT Strategies & Architectures, and tech domains:
  • Adding clarity to business requirements
  • Translating business requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements
  • Supporting project definition
  • Identifying common or duplicated needs across landscape
  • Work with product, operations team, and business group to understand and gather requirements.
  • Collaborate with architecture, security, infrastructure, data, and other component teams to design endtoend solution to the business requirements.
  • Applies innovative thinking to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives in line Group Architecture standards and tech domains, rather than just responding to a predefined request
  • Produce Solution documentation to a high standard that clearly articulates solution covering functional, nonfunctional, with focus on Infrastructure views, operations views, alerting and monitoring, resiliency
  • Reviewing detailed design, test strategy, scope and test scenarios.
  • Supports effective transition of the solution requirement into the Governance and Change model
  • Via oversight, maintains ownership of the design throughout the development process
  • Provides technology perspective input into new product and vendor selection process
  • Supports design & architecture development and governance activities
  • Maintains detailed awareness of, takes fully into account as necessary, and promotes throughout the organisation, any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations, standards and codes of good practice. Contributes as appropriate to the definition of such regulations, standards and codes
  • Maintains knowledge of relevant technical specialists at the highest level, by reading appropriate literature, attending conferences and seminars, meeting and maintaining contact with other leading practitioners of the technical specialism and though playing a major role in appropriate learned, professional and trade bodies
  • Is fluent at articulating best practice and is a recognised authority in Corporate Banking practices
  • Takes responsibility for architectural adherence, quality standards and policies
  • Escalate risks and issues that emerge from requirements gathering and solution design to governance forum.
  • Conducts Failure Mode Engineering Analysis to identify design hot spots
  • Maintains Tech Debt Catalogue
Strategy Development

  • Supports the creation of appropriate strategies for Corporate Digital Banking
  • Supports the planning process to ensure interdependencies are understood and that the proposed plan is viable
  • Influences the relevant business strategy to maximise the effective use of technology
Key Relationships

  • CTO
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Solution Architects in various business area that contribute to the solution
  • Chief Security Office, Run the Bank leads
  • Billing Development teams, Product Managers, Operations
  • Wider development teams who contribute to the initiative
  • Relevant Vendor who develop the solutions
What will you be doing?

  • Should have strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work with multiple component teams to comeup with desired endtoend solution.
  • Own the task independently.
  • Be able to communicate clearly on the status and progress of allocated activities.
  • Have worked in banking and finance domain.
  • Define and produce functional and nonfunctional requirements.
  • Work with multiple crossfunctional teams to achieve desired results.
  • Should have good understanding of various technologies and participate in providing solutions to the problem.
  • Experience in Banking and Finance covering payments landscape and corporate billing for large banks.
  • Experience with requirement gathering and working with multiple teams to arrive at solution.
  • Experience of working within a SDLC and/or Agile project environment.
  • Should have worked as Solution Architect in large projects and has good understanding of various technologies like Java, J2EE, Oracle, T
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