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Barclays

5d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior & Expert Level
  • Software Engineering
    IT & Cybersecurity
  • Pune

AI generated summary

  • You must assess legacy systems, design migration strategies, collaborate with teams, create technical documentation, meet business needs, and stay updated on industry trends and technologies.
  • You will design migration strategies, collaborate with teams, develop documentation, assess risks, and ensure solutions align with business needs and modern practices.

Requirements

  • Assess legacy systems and applications to identify migration requirements.
  • Design and develop migration strategies, plans, and approaches.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure end to end design are agreed.
  • Develop technical designs, specifications, and documentation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Assess legacy systems and applications to identify migration requirements.
  • Design and develop migration strategies, plans, and approaches.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure end to end design are agreed.
  • Develop technical designs, specifications, and documentation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
  • 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.
  • 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.

FAQs

What is the primary purpose of the Solution Designer role at Barclays?

The primary purpose of the Solution Designer role is to design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements and creating solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery.

What are the key responsibilities of a Solution Designer?

Key responsibilities include designing and developing solutions that meet business requirements, applying appropriate workload placement strategies, ensuring best practices for security, performing fault finding and performance support, conducting solution design impact assessment, and developing architecture inputs for compliance with governance processes.

What type of teams will I collaborate with in this role?

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and operational support teams to ensure that end-to-end designs are agreed upon and that business requirements are met.

What experience is required for the Solution Designer position?

Experience is required in assessing legacy systems, designing migration strategies, developing technical designs, and staying up-to-date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices.

Is this position based remotely?

No, this role is based out of Pune.

Will I need to manage risks associated with my work?

Yes, you are expected to take ownership of managing risks and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

What are the Assistant Vice President expectations for this role?

Expectations include consulting on complex issues, identifying risk mitigation strategies, collaborating with other areas to support business activities, engaging in data analysis, and communicating complex information effectively.

What are the company values I need to demonstrate as a part of this role?

You are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, along with the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Is sponsorship available for this role, and what should I disclose in my application?

If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays or require sponsorship, you must declare this as part of your application to ensure compliance with legal work requirements.

Barclays

Finance
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1690
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

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. With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. Barclays is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Barclays Bank PLC is registered in England and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered in England. Registered No. 1026167. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.