Vice President - Lead Solution Architect (Infrastructure)

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• 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.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Embark your journey as Vice President - Lead Solution Architect (Infrastructure) for Barclays Payments Merchant Services (BPMS) transaction cycle. The successful candidate will be responsible for governing various programs (including Business, Technology and Regulatory) that are spread across the transaction cycle. This role will also ensure various KRI’s and controls across Change, Tech Debt and Cyber Vulnerability management are maintained within compliance levels prescribed in various standards. This role will also work with various stakeholders to come up with the book of work for each year including the MTP cost finalization for delivering the work. The role is expected to interact with GTIS stakeholders, CIO’s, Delivery leads across various Businesses within BPMS to interlock deliverables and ensure they are scheduled and delivered on a pre-agreed timeline. The role will be primarily responsible for management reporting on all of the in-flight deliverables and be expected to walk through the same to senior stakeholders in various forums. The role is required to have good general communication and documentation skills to give clear and concise descriptions in flexible terminology such that concepts can be described to the Business, Technical and Management stakeholders with equal flexibility.

To be successful as Vice President - Lead Solution Architect (Infrastructure), you should have experience with:

• Strong understanding of various Technology standards and the relevant controls that each application team need to adhere to.
• Strong knowledge of Linux OS i.e. RHEL, Windows OS, VMWare, AD and Internal DNS (Windows), Server Hardware - blades and standalone etc. Strong knowledge around IT Security patterns and best practices - TLS/Token Usage, User Authentication and Authorisation, User privilege access, 2FA.
• Good understanding on Oracle-v19c, SAN’s and other storage mechanisms.
• Good understanding of different integration mechanisms (e.g. RESTful Web Services, ETL etc.) Good understanding on Networks - LB (App & Global DNS)/Firewalls/Switches(IP, Vlans & L3 Interfaces)/WAF & Web Proxies.
• Excellent Communication, Stakeholder Management Skills & persuasive skills across all layers of management.

Some other highly valued skills may include.

• Knowledge on Banking and in specific on Merchant Payments. Awareness of AWS and Azure Cloud Fundamentals.
• Appreciation of different Infrastructure patterns (e.g. Internet Facing Environment, Operational Data Stores, DMZ, etc.).
• Awareness of Release and Change Management process (ITIL) Awareness of ORAC and similar tools.

You will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role such as Control Framework, risk and controls, program management, reporting and communication skills as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is for Pune location.