Job Description
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Vice President Expectations
- 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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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.
At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as Lead Engineer – Vice President, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Corporate Data Services function. As a member of the Event Streaming and Operational Stores Engineering team, you will lead the build-out of technology solutions to meet business requirements, in line with our group architecture design standards and principles. You will work directly with the engineering director to design and deliver a group-wide strategic implementation of a scalable Event Streaming strategy using best-of-breed technologies. Additionally, you will assist in the development of systems strategy and planning. You will focus on creating a self-service environment with high levels of automation, making it easy to integrate into application build and release pipelines. This includes working with virtualization and container platforms and integrating middleware software to provide a highly usable ecosystem. You will be part of a team of engineers with accountability and responsibility for the engineering (strategy, architecture, design, build, documentation, and testing) of the software components. You will work closely with your colleagues in the wider cloud and middleware organization to bring their products to life as part of a modern developer-focused experience. Additionally, your role requires effective stakeholder management, leadership, and decision-making to support business strategy and risk management.
To be successful as a Lead Engineer – Vice President, you should have experience with:
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Provide technical leadership to resolve complex issues.
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Understand enterprise design principles for developing secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems.
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Possess knowledge of Agile development methodologies, Cloud concepts, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
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Extensive experience in software development using Java, Python, or other programming languages.
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Build Event Streaming applications utilizing Kafka, Kstreams, and Flink.
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Implement security and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and JWT.
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Utilize PaaS products, including container management solutions (Red Hat OpenShift, VMware, AWS, Azure).
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Experience with IaaS and PaaS products, encompassing virtualisation, containerisation, and orchestration.
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Deliver automation solutions and Infrastructure as Code implementations.
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Demonstrate a strong work ethic: team player, innovative, passionate, and disciplined.
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Possess a robust understanding of data modelling techniques, including star schemas, normalized/denormalized models, and data warehousing solutions like MongoDB, Couchbase, Snowflake, or Redshift.
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Knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate data infrastructure deployments ensuring repeatability and security.
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Skilled in workflow orchestration using tools like Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions to manage data processes, automate tasks, and ensure reliability.
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Proficient in Big Data Technologies and tools such as Apache Spark, Kafka, and cloud-based data lake architecture (AWS, S3, Databricks/SageMaker Feature Store).
Some highly valued skills include:
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Coding experience in Python, Java, GoLang, Rust etc.
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Working knowledge of testing methodologies like TDD, BDD etc and testing automation.
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Working knowledge of release and change management process (ITIL).
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Working knowledge of Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Terraform.
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Working experience of event bus products such as Kafka.
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Working knowledge of Git (or similar) source code control system.
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Working knowledge of build pipelines with GitLab.
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Working knowledge of build automation and dependency management tools such as Maven/Gradle.
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Working knowledge of cloud security and network concepts.
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.
The location of the role is Pune, IN.
Top Skills
What We Do
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
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