Solutions Architect

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

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:

As Solution Architect, the candidate would be required to: 
•    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:
o    Adding clarity to business requirements
o    Translating business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements
o    Supporting project definition
o    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 end-to-end solution to the business requirements.
•    Challenge business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created and considered
•    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 pre-defined request
•    Produce Solution documentation to a high standard that clearly articulates solution covering functional, non-functional, 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 come-up with desired end-to-end 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 non-functional requirements.
•    Work with multiple cross-functional 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, Teradata, MQ, Web Services and other related technologies.
•    Should be able to design solution for enterprise web application and be well versed with design patterns, data security, data encryption, web application hosting, and cloud computing.
•    Should be able to create various design and architecture diagrams in order to clearly articulate the solution to the business problem or requirement.
•    Should have strong presentation skills to clearly present and convey the architecture and solution for various business and technology requirements and problems and get agreement from stakeholders.
•    Should have knowledge and experience of various data exchange mechanism covering file based, MQ, API, and good knowledge of ETL.

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Project management skills to be able to work with project manager in planning deliveries and tracking progress.
•    Experience in ORMB (Oracle Revenue Management and Billing), MiRevenue or such other global billing application in banking domain.
•    Ability to get into the details of any technical or functional issues and provide support to the team.
•    Strong technology skills in Java, J2EE, Oracle, MQ and related applications
•    Skilled in analysing data and comfortable working on advance features of MS Excel, macros etc.

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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