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Director, Solution Architect Cash Settlement

Barclays · Posted Oct 27

Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services

Pune, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteDirector/Executive10–20 years₹60.0L–₹1.0Cr yearly88 applicants
BankingFinancial ServicesInvestment BankingCredit CardsWealth ManagementPublic Company
Full time

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About the role

Barclays is seeking a Solutions Architect to design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems in cash settlement. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to balance technology risks against business delivery and to drive consistency. The architect will work on Java-based enterprise applications, event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Camunda, and cloud capabilities while ensuring security and regulatory compliance.

What you will do

  • 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.
  • To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  • Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
  • They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
  • Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally.
  • They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
  • Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
  • Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

Skills used in this role

What the employer is looking for

  • Possess excellent architectural design skills, including API strategy, integration patterns, and ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
  • Have strong expertise in Java-based enterprise application design, including performance optimisation and modular architecture principles.
  • Demonstrate hands-on experience with event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, including stream processing and high-throughput messaging patterns.
  • Be proficient in container orchestration with Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, resilience, and secure deployments.
  • Show practical knowledge of workflow automation and BPM platforms such as Camunda, with ability to integrate process orchestration into distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with distributed systems and high-availability architectures, particularly in financial services or other mission-critical environments.
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, including tools like Jenkins, GitLab
  • Understanding of performance tuning and capacity planning for large-scale, low-latency systems.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL optimisation, ideally with experience in Oracle or PostgreSQL.
  • Knowledge of security best practices and regulatory compliance for designing secure solutions in banking.

Benefits and support

  • Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting

About Barclays

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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

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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

Group Chief Executive

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Anna Cross

Group Finance Director

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Alistair Currie

Group Chief Operating Officer

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