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This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.\nTargeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.\nBest practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.\nSolutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.\nAdoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.\nFault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.\nSolution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.\nDevelopment 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.\nVice President Expectations\nTo 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..\nIf 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..\nIf 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..\nOR 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..\nAdvise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.\nManage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.\nDemonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.\nDemonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.\nCreate 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.\nAdopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.\nSeek 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.\nAll 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.\nJoin us as a Bank IN Solution Architecture - VP at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.\nTo be successful as a Bank IN Solution Architecture - VP, you should have experience with:\nWork closely with engineers, QA engineers, UX designers, architects, and Scrum Masters to deliver high-quality software.\nParticipate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.\nPartner with engineering teams to define scalable, secure, and maintainable Android solutions.\nDefine architecture, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based services.\nSupport release planning and dependency management.\nEnsure product increments deliver measurable business value.\nDevelop architecture roadmaps supporting the modernization and strategic evolution of the Core Banking estate.\nIdentify opportunities to:Reduce legacy technology risk.\nSimplify architecture.\nReduce technical debt.\nImprove automation.\nIncrease API enablement.\nImprove resilience and recoverability.\nIntroduce appropriate cloud and container capabilities.\n\nAssess build vs buy vs reuse vs vendor-platform options and provide clear architecture recommendations.\nSupport incremental modernization strategies that protect critical banking services while reducing transformation risk.\nEnsure near-term project decisions remain aligned with longer-term target architecture.\nDefine and assure non-functional requirements covering:Availability\nResilience\nRecoverability\nPerformance\nCapacity\nScalability\nSecurity\nMaintainability\nObservability\n\nAssess failure modes and dependencies across Core Banking customer journeys.\nExp with Fiserv in Core banking and account servicing capabilities, Customer, account, transaction and product integrations.\nInterfaces between Fiserv-based services and digital channels, payments, cards, data and downstream banking platforms.\nExperience with OpenText in Enterprise content and document-management capabilities supporting banking processes.\nDocument creation, storage, retrieval, archival and records-management integrations.\nIntegration of content-management capabilities with customer and operational journeys.\nTSYS experience with Card-processing and card-servicing capabilities.\nAccount, transaction, authorization and servicing integrations.\nIntegration between TSYS capabilities and core banking, digital channels, payments and supporting services.\nDefine integration patterns between Core Banking platforms.\nDesign solutions that minimize blast radius and avoid unnecessary single points of failure.\nEnsure architecture supports effective monitoring, fault diagnosis and operational support.\nPartner with Engineering and Operations teams to investigate complex performance, availability and integration issues.\nEnsure capacity and performance implications are understood before significant production changes.\nAct as the architecture interface between business, product, engineering, operations and enterprise technology teams.\nTechnically challenge vendor proposals and ensure proposed solutions meet enterprise architecture requirements.\nCommunicate complex architecture decisions clearly to both senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nInfluence stakeholders where immediate delivery objectives conflict with longer-term technology strategy or acceptable risk.\nProvide architecture input into commercial and technology discussions where vendor capability, licensing, infrastructure or product direction impacts strategic decisions.\nSome other highly valued skills may include:\nCreate 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.\nAdopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.\nSeek 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.\nYou 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.\nThis role is based in Bangalore.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9325,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Cards & Card Issuing","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T05:48:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T04:01:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6870,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":12541},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=12541"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbarclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbarclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbarclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/barclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbarclays-bank-in-solution-architecture-vp"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3789456}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"home.barclays","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3789456},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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