VP- Solution Architect
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
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About 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.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications:
- Experience of shaping and defining reusable solutions and architecture across disparate technologies that resolve complex business issues with simple and cost effective technology based solutions.
- Experience of software and solution design across distributed and integrated architectures.
- Experience of API & integration strategies both for internal and external consumption.
- Hands on technical experience building and implementing software.
- Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of working with investment products or in an investment/asset management environment.
- Knowledge of technologies that are used by financial service providers.
- Experience of working with cloud technologies.
- You may be assessed on the 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.
Qualifications
- Experience of shaping and defining reusable solutions and architecture across disparate technologies that resolve complex business issues with simple and cost effective technology based solutions.
- Experience of software and solution design across distributed and integrated architectures.
- Experience of API & integration strategies both for internal and external consumption.
- Hands on technical experience building and implementing software.
- Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of working with investment products or in an investment/asset management environment.
- Knowledge of technologies that are used by financial service providers.
- Experience of working with cloud technologies.
- You may be assessed on the 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.