Engineering Manager

Join our Developer Services Deployment Tooling Team as an Engineering Manager and lead the team that powers software deployment for over 20,000 engineers’ company wide. As an Engineering Manager for this strategic team, you'll guide and develop a team of engineers building critical systems and tools that directly impact how our global engineering organization develops, tests, and deploys software. The Deployment Tooling team will be positioned to evaluate, build and support advanced deployment tooling extensions to our established GitLab enterprise toolchain platform.

You'll coach a team of experienced engineers working on platform services, developer tooling, and infrastructure projects that enable teams to deploy their software more efficiently and safely whilst implementing bank wide controls. This is an exciting opportunity to shape technical direction, grow engineering talent, and drive meaningful impact through systems used by thousands of developers every day. Be part of the leadership that makes Deployment Tooling engineering excellence possible.

To be successful as an Engineering Manager, you should have:

• Experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, with experience of hiring, mentoring, and growing technical talent

• Good technical background in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and modern software engineering practices to guide architectural decisions and provide technical mentorship

• Ability to balance technical delivery with people management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning

• Good communication and influencing skills to work effectively with diverse stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience managing teams building enterprise systems that are highly available and scalable

• Deep understanding of CI/CD practices, deployment automation, and DevOps toolchains to guide team technical strategy

• Familiarity with deployment tooling ecosystems such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Octopus Deploy, Ansible, or Nolio would be highly advantageous.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as people leadership, risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as technical acumen and strategic thinking.

The location of your role is Glasgow

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

• 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently 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, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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.