Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- Proven experience in designing and/or building highly scalable and resilient core payment systems for global financial organizations.
- Expertise in technology domains within payments: DevOps, API, Analytics, Cloud adoption and Process Automation
- Good Knowledge of SWIFT, SWIFT formats, Payment Gateways, UK and International Payment processing.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of Core banking landscape and Products
- Knowledge of various UK International schemes like FPS, BACS , CHAPS, Target2, SEPA
- Experience in systems integration projects that involve open-source technologies and implementation utilising cloud based computing and APIs
Additional Information
- 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.
