Solution Designer
We are collaborating with Barclays to connect exceptional tech professionals for this role.
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.
Leadership and Experience
* 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. May lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short and long term goals with budgets and schedules.
* If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to an 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, act as a subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and coach less experienced specialists.
* 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 understanding of organisation functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
* Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up with business activity and strategies.
* Create solutions based on analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. Conduct in-depth analysis to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
* Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem solving.
* Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Join us as a Solution Designer to support ongoing efforts to virtualise the bank's infrastructure in a controlled, quality-oriented and repeatable manner.
The Solution Designer sits within The Service Delivery Team, based in Radbroke, UK, and Whippany. They are accountable for managing infrastructure demand and optimisation on an ongoing basis, and for providing specialised support in GTIS technologies across private and public cloud. You will be supporting the migration of applications to next generation virtualised platforms.
You will work with stakeholders and application teams to understand functional/non-functional requirements, develop repeatable patterns and innovative approaches to migrations, and feed into engineering teams with requests for enhancements to ensure platforms support a wide range of use cases.
To be successful as a Solution Designer, you should have experience with:
Essential Skills
* Experienced in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) products; SDDC, VMware VCenter and ESX 6.x, 7.x, VRA, VRO, vROPs and others.
* Capacity to troubleshoot technical issues.
* Strong documentation skills using Confluence and other information repositories.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
Desirable Skills
* Good understanding of network technologies, including VMware NSX-V & NSX-T
* Certification of VMware 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) or equivalent preferred
* Certification of VMware-Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) a big plus
* Containerisation (OpenShift, Kubevirt, Harvester)
You may be assessed on the 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.
Location is Knutsford
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Software Development
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