Bank IN Solution Architecture - VP
Barclays · Posted Nov 5
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff10–15 years₹45.0L–₹70.0L yearly45 applicants
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About the role
Barclays' Core Banking technology team is responsible for modernising and running the bank's core banking estate, including account servicing, cards, payments and enterprise content platforms. The role is a VP-level solution architecture position focused on defining architecture, integration patterns and non-functional requirements across Fiserv, OpenText and TSYS-based systems and their interfaces to digital channels and downstream banking services. It involves producing architecture roadmaps, assessing vendor options and balancing technology risk against business delivery, based in Bangalore.
What you will do
- Work closely with engineers, QA engineers, UX designers, architects, and Scrum Masters to deliver high-quality software.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with engineering teams to define scalable, secure, and maintainable Android solutions.
- Define architecture, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based services.
- Support release planning and dependency management.
- Ensure product increments deliver measurable business value.
- Develop architecture roadmaps supporting the modernization and strategic evolution of the Core Banking estate.
- Identify opportunities to: Reduce legacy technology risk. Simplify architecture. Reduce technical debt. Improve automation. Increase API enablement. Improve resilience and recoverability. Introduce appropriate cloud and container capabilities.
- Assess build vs buy vs reuse vs vendor-platform options and provide clear architecture recommendations.
- Support incremental modernization strategies that protect critical banking services while reducing transformation risk.
- Ensure near-term project decisions remain aligned with longer-term target architecture.
- Define and assure non-functional requirements covering: Availability Resilience Recoverability Performance Capacity Scalability Security Maintainability Observability
- Assess failure modes and dependencies across Core Banking customer journeys.
- Define integration patterns between Core Banking platforms.
- Design solutions that minimize blast radius and avoid unnecessary single points of failure.
- Ensure architecture supports effective monitoring, fault diagnosis and operational support.
- Partner with Engineering and Operations teams to investigate complex performance, availability and integration issues.
- Ensure capacity and performance implications are understood before significant production changes.
- Act as the architecture interface between business, product, engineering, operations and enterprise technology teams.
- Technically challenge vendor proposals and ensure proposed solutions meet enterprise architecture requirements.
- Communicate complex architecture decisions clearly to both senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Influence stakeholders where immediate delivery objectives conflict with longer-term technology strategy or acceptable risk.
- Provide architecture input into commercial and technology discussions where vendor capability, licensing, infrastructure or product direction impacts strategic decisions.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Exp with Fiserv in Core banking and account servicing capabilities, Customer, account, transaction and product integrations.
- Interfaces between Fiserv-based services and digital channels, payments, cards, data and downstream banking platforms.
- Experience with OpenText in Enterprise content and document-management capabilities supporting banking processes.
- Document creation, storage, retrieval, archival and records-management integrations.
- Integration of content-management capabilities with customer and operational journeys.
- TSYS experience with Card-processing and card-servicing capabilities.
- Account, transaction, authorization and servicing integrations.
- Integration between TSYS capabilities and core banking, digital channels, payments and supporting services.
Preferred qualifications
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
CV
C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Group Chief Executive
AC
Anna Cross
Group Finance Director
AC
Alistair Currie
Group Chief Operating Officer
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