Barclays Looking for Solution Architect at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Chennai

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

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

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.

Hybrid Working

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances These requests will be reviewed and agreed for a period of time i.e., will have a start and end date.

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
The USCB India Architecture centre of excellence is responsible for setting up the technical strategy and architecture vision for USCB, drives innovation and provides centralised enterprise and solution architecture capability.

Role is for a senior solution architect

• To lead and be accountable for all solutioning/end to end design activities for projects across the end-to-end software development lifecycle within USCB.
• To support the lead architect within the USCB domain in defining the strategy

What will you be doing?

Strategy Development (20%)

• Strategy and Plan: Under the guidance of the Lead Architect, develop elements of the technical strategy, roadmaps and vision for that area that align to Board Approved Purpose, Values, Risk Appetite and Policies and are consistent with wider USCB and Barclays Group standards.

Project Solutions Development (75%)

• Provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business requirements or technical strategies.
• Own end to end technical and application architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all technical component teams that need to contribute.
• Work closely with the Lead Architect and other Solution Architects, programme managers, business analysts & product to understand and challenge requirements:
• Support project definition
• Refine business requirements in light of technical constraints and opportunities
• Ensure that end-to-end view is established and that all key requirements are captured. Support the definition of clear functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. capacity, availability, response times, etc.).
• Agree with business clients how requirements will be tested and any mitigating actions to minimise risk.
• Understand technical constraints of live environment / architecture, support business clients in understanding any ‘requirement versus cost’ trade-offs.
• Design, document and communicate technical and integration solutions:
• Analyse project scoping statement, project requirements to help define a complete end to end solution, utilising capabilities available across USCB
• Identify and develop innovative solutions that will enhance the client experience and provide a cost effective solution for USCB
• Use analysis output to create and document candidate solutions
• Present complex technical ideas (both written and verbal), anticipate potential objections and persuade others to adopt the most appropriate view.
• Ensure candidate solutions are reviewed with peer architects and the Lead Architect
• Ensure project designs are compliant to architectures and standards by:
• Producing required governance artefacts for Technical Architecture Council (TAC)
• Presenting project designs at TAC or appropriate Design Authority.
• Supporting the lead architect in evolving the architectures and standards, ensuring their effectiveness alongside advancing business, security and technology landscapes.
• Core Deliverables:
• Full & Partial Concept solutions/Architecture Vision
• Non-functional requirements and its impact assessment
• End to end designs
• Supporting Governance Artefacts

Application Management (5%)

• Participate in technical implementation planning, ensuring that the integrity of live operations will be maintained.
• Assist in the resolution of live incidents and system problems as and when required.
• Identify proactive remedial strategies to prevent future system problems and to improve the quality of delivered systems.

What we’re looking for:
Proficient in architecting solutions across disparate technologies to achieve the complex business objectives of multiple business areas:

• Experience years in solution architecture and designs for enterprise products and solutions
• Proficient in distributed transaction processing, event sourcing, Kafka, Microservices architecture, Service Mesh implementations
• Knowledge of IBM Red Hat OpenShift, and any external cloud platform e.g. AWS
• Hands on experience on API and Application Security, BasicAuth and OAuth2
• Breadth and depth of financial services business and applications knowledge.
• Able to thrive in an unstructured, ambiguous environment; adept at varying own styles to influence the optimum outcome
• Able to interface with several stakeholders and influencing their conflicting objectives in to a pragmatic solution and deliverable release schedule

Skills that will help you in the role:

• The candidate ideally will have experience in Credit Card / Loans / Deposits applications and infrastructure, with an understanding of service management
• Solution architect and enterprise architect training and certification, e.g. TOGAF, BCS accreditation.
• Exposure to Open Banking APIs, event sourcing, and event driven architecture
• Experience of working to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment

Where will you be working?

Chennai

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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