Essential Skills:

• A very good broad understanding of a wide variety of technologies pertinent to Barclaycard, including emerging technologies (e.g. AWS, Java, Adaptive and Responsive design, etc).

• Awareness of IT Security patterns, considerations, best practice (e.g. OWasp).

• Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available, resilient performant solutions.

• Knowledge of Software delivery and deployment patterns (e.g. Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, etc) with deep understanding of Enterprise Container Platforms (e.g. Docker).

• Knowledge of different integration mechanisms (e.g. RESTful Web Services, ETL etc).

• Awareness of different data solutions and data architecture best practice (e.g. Mongo, Data Driven Design, etc).

• Awareness of SCM, packaging and build tools – GIT, Jenkins and Maven Gradle.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Payments/Acquiring domain knowledge/experience.

• Good understanding of Customer Journeys in the Acquiring (Authorizations, Scheme Clearing, Scheme settlement, Merchant payments, Chargeback Processing).

• Familiar with integration and implementation issues and their architectural implications.

• Excellent understanding of best practice architectural and design methods with proven innovative and leading edge thinking (e.g. Domain Driven Architecture, event based architecture, building for resilience, scalability, performance, Microservice design patterns etc).

• Understands different project methodologies, project lifecycles, major phases, dependencies and milestones within a project, and the required documentation needs.

• Good understanding of concepts of service delivery and support and how this can be affected by technical delivery.

Location-Pune.

You 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.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. 

Accountabilities

• 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
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