Barclays
Location
Pune | India
Job description
Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Pune
About Barclays
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.
Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.
Working Flexibly
We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs
Hybrid Working
Structured hybrid role:
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, 'anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
This role is part of the central CTO Architecture team supporting CIB businesses with responsibilities for design, design governance, improving ways of working, reducing TCO for our technology estate and accelerating public and private cloud adoption.
As a CTO Lead Architect, your role is to work alongside the tech delivery teams, providing technical architecture coaching, guidance and governance to ensure that solutions will most effectively meet the business need and align with the group technology strategy principles, policies and standards. Beyond your business function aligned work you will also be involved in setting technical direction for the broader organisation through participation in group-wide technology domains and standard setting. What will you be doing
. Contribute to multi-year architectural roadmaps that are consistent with Barclays Data and Technology Strategy, better support our businesses, exploit new technology, reduce TCO, simplify the estate, and influence the delivery book of work to align with that roadmap over a multi-year period.
. Ensure architecture is thought through front to back including alignment with Barclays technology and data strategy, interaction with other business units and group-wide infrastructure services, is reviewed & governed in accordance with the company architecture standards
. Foster a culture of continuous improvement in developer productivity and delivery effectiveness.
. Partner with solution architects and engineers to analyse and identify technical solutions to architectural challenges specific to their areas, understanding and challenging requirements, to develop systems that are efficient, resilient, secure, cost-effective and operable
. Help delivery teams and architects unblock tech obstacles by using your network across of architects and product managers across businesses and central function, and influence them to use well known patterns and preferred products.
. Participate in group technology strategy
. Ensure ongoing software deliveries are developed and documented in line with the business unit and group architecture strategies, and the company's software development standards
. Evaluate new technologies, building POCs where appropriate, guide selection of vendor products and provide technical consultancy for new initiatives
What we're looking for:
. Ability to quickly and effectively understand a complex business sufficiently for sound architecture decisions
. Candidate must hold BE/BTech degree.
. Understanding of modern software development practices & lifecycle
. Technical architecture / designing for non-functional requirements
. Broad understanding of current common technologies, e.g. Linux, relational DBs, messaging, containers
. Effective communication verbally and via diagrams & documents to influence technical & business stakeholders
. Hands on capability to work with Lead Architects, Solution Architects and developers in supporting resolution of critical issues
Skills that will help you in the role:
. Banking, related financial services or other highly regulated industry experience
. Enterprise architecture standards & practices
. Masters preferred
. Specialised architecture certifications like AWS/Cloud/TOGAF etc
. Recent hands-on development experience
. Domain Driven Design, Data Modelling, Event Driven Architecture, APIs, Public Cloud architecture
Where will you be working
Pune
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.
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