Join Barclays as a Solution Designer Lead. In this role, you will support the ongoing efforts to virtualize the bank’s infrastructure in a controlled, quality-focused, and repeatable manner. You will be responsible for overseeing infrastructure demand and optimization while providing specialized support across a range of GTIS technologies in both private and public cloud environments. As a Solution Designer Lead, you will play a key role in supporting the migration of applications to next-generation virtualized platforms. You will collaborate with stakeholders and application teams to understand both functional and non-functional requirements, develop repeatable migration patterns, and introduce innovative approaches. Your insights will help inform engineering teams by identifying enhancement opportunities to ensure the platforms can support a broad range of use cases.

To be successful as a Solution Design Lead, you should have:

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) products; SDDC, VMware VCenter, ESX 6.x, 7.x, VRA, VRO, vROPs
• Capacity to troubleshoot technical issues
• Documentation skills using confluence and other information repositories

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Certification of VMware 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)
• Certification of VMware – Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV)
• Containerization tools such as OpenShift, Kubevirt, Harvester

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is located in Whippany, NJ.
Minimum Salary: $170,000
Maximum Salary: $230,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

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.