Solution Architect
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
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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:
- Hands‑on cloud engineering experience with architecting large‑scale systems on AWS. Deep expertise across AWS services including EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kinesis, MSK, S3, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudWatch, IAM, and IaC frameworks (CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Strong ability to architect high‑throughput, low‑latency, distributed systems for mission‑critical workloads. Proven experience designing cloud‑native, event‑driven, microservices‑based architectures.
- Hands‑on engineering leadership involving solution design, code reviews, architecture reviews, platform blueprinting, and design governance. Expertise in containerization, Kubernetes, serverless patterns, and multi‑region fault‑tolerant architectures.
- Demonstrated ability in AWS cost management, scaling strategies, performance tuning, and optimizing for resilience and cost efficiency. Ability to manage and drive multiple PoCs, architecture reviews, technical evaluations, and solution options in parallel.
- Strong capability to present architectural options, trade‑offs, risk evaluations, and decisions to governance boards and senior leadership with clear, data‑driven justification. Deep understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and secure cloud operations.
- Ability to work cross‑functionally with Product, Data Science, Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to influence long‑term platform strategy. Excellent communication, executive presence, and ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into actionable insights for decision‑makers.
- Experience in fraud detection, fraud platforms, decisioning systems, or real‑time risk engines. Experience in top product‑based technology companies known for engineering depth and architectural rigor.
- Exposure to AI/ML platforms, LLM‑driven architectures, GenAI tooling, vector stores, embedding pipelines, and LLM pattern integration into enterprise systems. Experience with streaming frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming), graph technologies, and real‑time analytics.
- Knowledge of model governance, cloud security best practices, and regulatory compliance (PCI, GDPR). Background in modernizing legacy systems into cloud‑native, microservices or event‑driven architectures.
- Experience leading engineering organizations across hybrid or global delivery models. Patents, publications, open‑source contributions, or conference‑level technical leadership.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Hands‑on cloud engineering experience with architecting large‑scale systems on AWS.
- Deep expertise across AWS services including EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, Kinesis, MSK, S3, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudWatch, IAM, and IaC frameworks (CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Strong ability to architect high‑throughput, low‑latency, distributed systems for mission‑critical workloads.
- Proven experience designing cloud‑native, event‑driven, microservices‑based architectures.
- Hands‑on engineering leadership involving solution design, code reviews, architecture reviews, platform blueprinting, and design governance.
- Expertise in containerization, Kubernetes, serverless patterns, and multi‑region fault‑tolerant architectures.
- Demonstrated ability in AWS cost management, scaling strategies, performance tuning, and optimizing for resilience and cost efficiency.
- Ability to manage and drive multiple PoCs, architecture reviews, technical evaluations, and solution options in parallel.
- Strong capability to present architectural options, trade‑offs, risk evaluations, and decisions to governance boards and senior leadership with clear, data‑driven justification.
- Deep understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and secure cloud operations.
- Ability to work cross‑functionally with Product, Data Science, Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams to influence long‑term platform strategy.
- Excellent communication, executive presence, and ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into actionable insights for decision‑makers.
- Experience in fraud detection, fraud platforms, decisioning systems, or real‑time risk engines.
- Experience in top product‑based technology companies known for engineering depth and architectural rigor.
- Exposure to AI/ML platforms, LLM‑driven architectures, GenAI tooling, vector stores, embedding pipelines, and LLM pattern integration into enterprise systems.
- Experience with streaming frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming), graph technologies, and real‑time analytics.
- Knowledge of model governance, cloud security best practices, and regulatory compliance (PCI, GDPR).
- Background in modernizing legacy systems into cloud‑native, microservices or event‑driven architectures.
- Experience leading engineering organizations across hybrid or global delivery models.
- Patents, publications, open‑source contributions, or conference‑level technical leadership.
- 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.
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.