Google Cloud Engineering Lead

Join us at Barclays as a Google Cloud Engineering Lead and take charge of designing, building, and evolving our secure, scalable GCP landing zone. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team of engineers to develop, mature, and maintain the platform, ensuring it meets the needs of our business and customers.

Working closely with product owners and technical teams, you will apply modern development practices to deliver a robust foundation for our cloud services, enabling innovation and efficiency across the bank.

To be successful as a Google Cloud Engineering Lead, you should have:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Implementation & Operations - Strong hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and operating GCP services at scale, including networking, IAM, monitoring, and resource management — able to guide engineers and review their work for quality and compliance.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Expert-level skills writing, modularizing, and managing Terraform code for complex cloud environments, including state management and CI/CD integration.
• DevOps & CI/CD using GitLab - Strong experience setting up GitLab pipelines for automated provisioning, testing, and deployment of cloud infrastructure

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Cloud Security & Compliance - Familiar with Cloud / GCP security best practices for landing zones.
• Team Leadership & Agile Delivery - Proven track record in leading cross-functional engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering projects using Agile/Kanban methodologies.
• Multi-Cloud Experience (AWS and Azure) - Experience designing and integrating landing zones or foundational platforms across AWS and Azure in addition to GCP, including networking, identity federation, and workload migration

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.

This role can be based out of our Knutsford or Glasgowcampus.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.