Barclays Hiring Solution Architect 2025: Apply Now!

About Company

Barclays Hiring Solution Architect: Barclays is a British multinational universal bank headquartered in London, England. It operates in two main divisions:

1. Barclays UK – Provides personal banking, credit cards, wealth management, and business banking services in the UK.
2. Barclays International – Includes corporate banking, investment banking, and international wealth management.

Key Facts About Barclays:

• Founded: 1690 (as a goldsmith banking business in London)
• Headquarters: London, UK
• CEO: C.S. Venkatakrishnan (as of 2024)
• Stock Listing: Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BARC) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BCS)
• Employees: Over 80,000 worldwide
• Global Presence: Operates in over 40 countries  [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

Services Offered:

• Retail and commercial banking
• Investment banking (trading, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets)
• Wealth and asset management
• Credit cards and consumer lending

Notable Aspects:

• One of the oldest banks in the world
• Introduced the world’s first ATM in 1967
• Involved in major financial transactions and global investments
• Known for its role in corporate finance, fintech, and digital banking solutions

Join us as a Solution Architect at Barclays, where you’ll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You’ll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of team of developers, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions.
To be successful as a Solution Architect you should have experience with: [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Architecting and designing enterprise-wide end to end solutions, focusing on Cloud based technologies, as well as software/application architecture and integration.
• Producing and presenting technical architecture documentation / proposals to senior design authorities.
• Knowledge of Architectural principles and design patterns.
• Domain Driven Design, Microservices Architecture, Rest APIs.
• Stakeholder and Communication Management, both written and verbal.
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders at all levels up to MD, including collaborating closely with internal and third-party teams to integrate their platforms seamlessly into our ecosystem.
• Data architecture knowledge, including the importance of using the correct data lineage. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

Some other highly valued skills includes:

• Experience on Digital Channels/Mobile App solution architecture/design
• Significant software development experience, with multiple programming languages.
• Application of non-functional design principles (security, performance, availability, resilience etc.)
• Technology knowledge (integration patterns, application functionality/context, experience integrating vendor applications etc.
• Previous experience in Banking, Credit and Investments would be desirable. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

You may be assessed on key critical skills 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 out of Pune.

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.  [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

Job Description:

• Position: Solution Architect
• Location: Pune
• Experience: No prior experience required
• Salary : Not Disclosed

• 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. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. ‘Complex’ information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. [Barclays Hiring Solution Architect]

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