Pega Tech Lead

Job Title: Pega Tech Lead
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

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction:

•    Create with guidance from more senior solutions designers and enterprise architects, technology solutions to meet business requirements in line with Cluster and Group IT Strategies and Architectures
•    Work with the relevant Technology and Change Project Manager and other Solutions Designers, Business Solutions Leads and Enterprise Architects, responsible for ensuring that the outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original solution
•    Support the development of systems strategies and roadmaps for the supported business area
•    Provide ad-hoc consultancy as required to the business on technical matters

What will you be doing?

•    Understanding of PEGA 7 , PEGA 8, Infinity 23
•    Solutions Development (Minimum 60%)
•    Will create, with guidance from more senior solutions designers and enterprise architects, technology solutions, and stage 0 costs, to meet business requirements, in line with Cluster and Group O&T Strategies and Architectures. Work with supply chain (including external) as appropriate. This will typically be on smaller, less complex projects, and often with guidance and supervision from more senior solutions designers.
•    Adding clarity to business requirements; translates; challenges business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created
•    Identifying common or duplicative needs across SBU, Cluster & Group O&T
•    Thinks outside of the box to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request,
•    Works with project managers, sourcing managers and more senior solutions designers to ensure that the validity of the overall solution is fully represented and considered in any RFI/RFPs process, or in the creation and evaluation of proof of concept solutions
•    Works with external and internal suppliers to flesh out and develop solution
•    Takes responsibility for ensuring that solutions adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies.
•    Working with the relevant Technology and Change Project Manager, and Solutions Designers, Business Solutions Leads and Enterprise Architects, responsible for ensuring that the outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original solution specified. This will be achieved by reviewing project design SDLC artefacts (e.g. High Level Design, Detailed Design) and the impact of significant change requests.
•    Advice and Guidance (up to 25%)
•    Support the Lead Solutions Designer in providing advice and guidance to business stakeholders in shaping the portfolio of technology solutions to be provided to the business
•    Contribute to broader architectural governance activities by participating in peer reviews for other solutions designers. Form part of broader solutioning community across Business Solutions for advice and guidance.
•    Maintains 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. Is capable of contributing to the definition of such regulations, standards and codes.
•    Strategy Development (up to 10%)
•    Working with more senior solutions designers, and relevant Enterprise Architects, supports the creation of an appropriate technology strategy and roadmap for the relevant business area.
•    Supports the Medium Term Planning (MTP) process to ensure interdependencies are understood and that the proposed plan is viable.
•    With guidance from more senior solutions designers, influence the relevant business strategy to maximize the effective use of technology.
•    Maintains knowledge of relevant technical specialism(s), by reading relevant 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.
•    Keeps in close touch with, and contributes to current developments in the relevant technical specialism(s) within Barclays, own industry and outside. Is fluent at articulating best practice
•    Control (including Governance & Risk) 5%
•    Adhere to Policies & Standards appropriate to the role - outlined in the Code of Conduct and mandatory training.
•    Ensure that all risks identified are managed as per Risk Framework procedures, ensure risk events (incidents) and control failures are investigated, reported, fixed and/or escalated to prevent reoccurrence.
•    In instances where role holder is an owner of a key control, they will be required to provide supporting records to demonstrate regular review and maintenance.
•    In addition, will be responsible to ensure all personal mandatory training is completed within defined timelines

What we’re looking for:

•    BE / BTech or equivalent
•    Experience on PEGA 7, PEGA 8
•    Enterprise Services (SAP, BPM - Pega, ECM - Filenet, OpenText)
•    Strong in pega based application development and design principles. 
•    Must have prior experience in creating and debugging REST/SOAP webservices and connectors.
•    Strong understanding WAS, JBoSS and Tomcat servers
•     Preferably CLSA certified or played role in capacity of leading pega projects as solution architect.
•    Good knowledge on process flows, case types, case hierarchy, case dependency, parallel processing, complex routing.
•    Experience in creating background process jobs in pega using queue processors & job schedulers.
•    Experience in creating Declarative rules like declare expressions, decision trees & tables, data pages
•    Experience in working on Pega BIX
•    Experience in handling session management with cookies disabled, error handling and Database threading, using load balancers and single-sign-on like webseal integration
•    Knowledge on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
•    Experience in writing Activities, data transform, functions. 
•    Experience using pega unit testing and scenario testing frameworks
•    SQL query writing using Teradata and Oracle would be added advantage
•    Working on several tasks on a variety of different projects at the same time.
•    Proven ability to build effective internal relationships
•    Awareness of innovative management information tools and systems 
•    Governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g., data security, records management, 
•    Strong analytical skills including ability to provide observations and comment
•    Wider-thinking and problem solving – identifying and delivering reporting through own initiative.
•    Understanding of change management process.

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Excellent communication skills – verbal & written.
•    Self-motivated, passionate, well-organized individual with demonstrated problem solving skills.
•    Experience in building distributed Machine Learning systems.
•    Experience in performing pega minor/patch upgrades.
•    Experience in performing legacy systems migration onto pega platforms. 
•    Experience in implementing deployment automation using Pega Deployment manager, Jenkins. 
•    Familiarity with cloud technologies: OpenShift, AWS
•    Knowledge of DevOps practices, tooling and automation: Chef, Jenkins
•    Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and development of containerized applications
•    Experience working in an Agile development methodology
•    Experience with project management tools: Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Stash

Where will you be working?
Pune


Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
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 everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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