Solution Architect - Data

Job Description

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.

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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Solution Architect - Data at Barclays where you'll part of the Fraud Technology - Architect team delivering Fraud Tech target state Solution Architecture. As a team, you will be equipped with a range of data-related disciplines often focused on depicting the interaction of systems and the data that flows between them. In the context of delivery you would be responsible for compliance with data-related policies & standards with respect to Security, Privacy, Data Governance & Management. Support the embedding of Global Data Architecture Capabilities in the Fraud Tech software development lifecycle, GDMS and Lean Control Process. As Data Architect, you'll work closely with the Lead Architect, program managers, business analysts & product to understand and deliver on requirements. Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements.
To be successful as a Solution Architect - Data you should have experienced with:
 

• Banking applications and infrastructure, with an understanding of service management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills in order to gain approval of design decisions across the tech and change stakeholders as well as business requestors and the wider Group Architecture community. 
• The ability to influence and convince stakeholders to follow data architecture principles and change current behaviours will be key to the success of this role.
• Knowledge of processes, techniques and factors that affect data architecture; ability to design blueprints.
• Integrate data resources for business processes and functional support.
• Knows the tools and techniques used for data governance. Understands the relevance of following, creating and improving policies to ensure data is secure including data privacy (e.g. token generation).
• Knowledge of concepts associated with basic data modelling; ability to identify, create and document activities, tasks, processes and data requirements for a particular system under design.
•  Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design. Knowledge of Architecture Modeling; ability to develop and modify enterprise architecture through conceptual, logical and physical approaches.
• Knowledge of  data, process and events; ability to use tools and techniques for analyzing and documenting logical relationships among data, processes or events.
• Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Some other highly values skills include:
 

• Cloud Platform experience with AWS.
• Cloud Database Technologies (Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake etc.).
• Familiarity with Agile principles.

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 in Pune.