Barclays

Lead Solution Architect

Barclays
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2 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver high-quality, scalable, maintainable, secure, and performance-optimized software and platform solutions.
  • Define target architectures and lead architecture governance for digital asset and financial-market platforms.
  • Design solutions involving tokenisation, wallets, custody, asset lifecycle management, smart contracts, and blockchain/DLT integration.
  • Evaluate vendor platforms and collaborate with business, engineering, risk, compliance, operations, and external partners.
  • Advise senior stakeholders on technical direction, cross-functional impacts, risks, controls, and strategic decisions.
  • Lead complex, multi-year assignments and guide technical direction, team members, and less experienced specialists.
  • Apply secure coding, testing, resiliency, fault-tolerance, high-availability, and performance-optimization practices.
  • Contribute to technology strategy, continuous improvement, policy adherence, and organizational technology communities.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise platforms across payments, treasury, settlement, trade processing, bonds, repos, and financial market infrastructure.
  • Strong digital assets architecture expertise, including tokenisation, wallets, custody, asset lifecycle management, smart contracts, and blockchain/DLT-based solutions.
  • Deep knowledge of Hyperledger Besu, Canton, permissioned blockchain networks, node architecture, consensus mechanisms, validator operations, and enterprise DLT integration patterns.
  • Experience designing secure platforms involving key management, HSMs, MPC, cryptography, PKI, mTLS, encryption, secrets management, and IAM.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native distributed architectures, AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, and financial ecosystem integration.
  • Experience defining target architectures, leading architecture governance, evaluating vendor platforms, and delivering secure, scalable, resilient platforms.
  • Experience in regulated environments with compliance, audit, and governance requirements.
  • Knowledge of system resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, performance optimization, design patterns, object-oriented principles, and enterprise architecture practices.
  • Experience with JUnit, Mockito, integration testing, and contract testing.
  • Working knowledge of large-scale delivery models and collaboration with product owners, architects, QA, security, and DevOps teams.
  • Strong communication, influencing, negotiating, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Banking domain knowledge in payments and transfers, treasury, settlement, reconciliation, regulatory controls, and compliance controls.

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Solutions Engineering
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About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients, and communities. For further information about Barclays, please visit home.barclays.

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