Repository Tools Enablement Engineer

Join us as a Repository Tools Enablement Engineer at Barclays, where you'll drive innovation and ensure the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of our critical repository services, Bitbucket Server and Nexus. As part of a Level 3 support team, you'll be a subject matter expert, providing critical support to teams across Barclays who rely on this platform to build and store their applications. You will collaborate with colleagues across multiple areas, ensuring smooth platform operations, developing documentation as needed, and optimising functionality to enhance the developer experience. This role is key to maintaining a robust digital ecosystem that supports Barclays' internal applications.

To excel as a Repository Tools Enablement Engineer, you should have experience in:

• Administering Atlassian Bitbucket and Sonatype Nexus, with a strong focus on managing the Bitbucket system at a global level, including configuration, maintenance, and overall administration.
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving, ensuring swift resolution of technical issues.
• Incident response and handling, maintaining system stability and minimising disruptions.
• Enhancing the customer experience, providing high-quality support and proactive solutions.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Groovy scripting.
• Atlassian certification.
• Experience in regulatory finance.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure, including EC2.
• Proficiency in Chef.
• Experience with deployment tools to streamline application releases.

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 successful candidate will be based in Radbroke Hall, Knutsford.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Posses in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• Develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies / procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.