Automation & AI Expert

Join us as a Automation & AI Expert at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions. 

To be successful as a Automation & AI Expert, you should have experience with:

• Own the end‑to‑end test automation and AI‑enabled testing capability across Payments platforms, ensuring consistency, scalability, and resilience.

• Translate enterprise transformation goals into practical, execution‑ready automation and AI solutions.

• Drive the shift from manual and fragmented testing to standardized, intelligent, automation‑first models.

• Design, build, and industrialize modern test automation frameworks supporting UI, API, data, event‑driven, and microservices‑based architectures.

• Drive adoption of AI‑assisted testing capabilities, including.

• Self‑healing and resilient test suites

• Intelligent test data creation and optimization

• Failure analytics, trend analysis, and defect prediction

• Embed automation seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines and cloud‑native delivery patterns, aligned to platform engineering standards.

• Partner with Payments Engineering, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and Product teams to embed automation as a core engineering capability.

• Define and enforce enterprise‑grade standards, guardrails, and reusable assets, reducing duplication and operational risk.

• Lead PoCs where required and industrialize proven capabilities into supported, production‑ready solutions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Design and deliver secure, resilient, and compliant automation and AI solutions suitable for Payments platforms.

• Ensure AI‑assisted solutions are explainable, auditable, and ethically applied.

• Operate fully within enterprise technology risk, data, and AI governance frameworks, ensuring no compromise to control or regulatory obligations.

• Acts as a technical authority, influencing direction through expertise and delivery credibility.

• Drives adoption of engineering best practices across multiple delivery teams.

• Coaches teams to improve automation maturity and test effectiveness.

• Demonstrates strong judgment, balancing pace, quality, and risk in a regulated environment.

• Communicates confidently with senior engineering leadership and stakeholders, translating complexity into actionable insight.

You may be assessed on 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 role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.