Solution Architect
- Barclays
- 10 - 19 years
- Pune
- 10 months ago
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Job Description
Embark on a transformative journey as a Solution Architect at Barclays, where youll spearhead the evolution of our digital connectivity landscape, driving innovation and excellence. Youll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. You will be responsible for the definition and oversight of the overall network product portfolio strategy, portfolio architecture, compliance and network economics, further it leads on demand management, business change management, end-2-end solution and service designs that underpin the consumption of network connectivity platforms, products and services at scale.
To be successful in this role as a Solution Architect, you should possess the following skillsets:
- Hands-on expertise in End-to-end Solution Design and Architecture, Systems Integration, Network Product Design/Modelling and Agile Methodologies; within Network Connectivity and Network Security domain.
- Expert level experience in designing solutions for large scale Service Provider or Enterprise Networks in these domains - Order management, Inventory Management, Provisioning/Activation, Discovery & Reconciliation, Alarm Management, Performance Management, Test & Diagnostics, Network Plan and Build .
- Strong knowledge and demonstrable hands-on experience with Open-source and standards like eTOM, TMF SID, OpenAPI, ETSI NFV etc.
Some other highly valued skills include:
- Expertise in IaaS and programming (python or similar) and knowledge of scalable software architectures (micro-services etc) .
- Expertise in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud technologies across broad Network (physical and wireless), Infrastructure and Cloud domain.
- Experience with NetSec DevOps way of working and experience in delivering runbooks, Network Service Models and blueprints for enablement of Zero Touch Ops.
You may be assessed on the key critical skil ls 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 our Pune office.
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.
Job Classification
Industry: Financial ServicesFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Technical ArchitectEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: BarclaysLocation(s): Pune
Keyskills: Order management Change management Performance management Vice President Agile Network security Product design Open source Python
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