Compliance Delivery Lead

Join us as a Compliance Delivery Lead- Vice President at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. We are looking for an experienced IT professional to join our qualified and diverse development team. You will work with our stakeholders to deliver quality product to our global user base. You will be responsible for leading development activities in the compliance space along with an oversight on best practices associated with API Development. You will be required to interact with Business Analyst, business stakeholders and developers to understand root level requirements, planning and delivering in an agile model. You will own the application(s) architecture and will also drive best practises for end-to-end development using latest tech stack.

To thrive in this role you’ll need some previous experience in:

• Leading the design and delivery of enterprise-grade web and API integration solutions

• Deep technical expertise in Java, Spring, Kafka, RESTful APIs, and Salesforce Service Cloud, with hands-on experience in architecting scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.

• Proven leadership in high-pressure environments, with a track record of guiding cross-functional engineering teams, resolving production-critical issues, and ensuring platform stability and performance.

• Strong command of API-first design principles and modern integration patterns, including asynchronous processing and microservices.

• Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven design using message queues. In-depth understanding of web service security protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, and mutual TLS.

• Should be skilled in leading code reviews, architecture governance, and mentoring engineering teams across geographies. Able to translate business requirements into technical architecture and deliver measurable outcomes aligned with compliance and regulatory standards.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity). Should have Agile delivery experience with a solid grasp of Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and articulate technical concepts in business terms.

Some other highly valued skills included are:

• Exposure to Microsoft 365, Azure Entra, and Generative AI tools such as GitLab Duo and Microsoft Copilot.

• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar platforms; experience in Salesforce Developer Toolkit (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning) and familiar with Salesforce data tools and ETL platforms.

• Should have passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and driving cultural change within engineering teams

• Prior experience in the Banking, Financial Services, or Compliance domains is highly desirable.

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 is based in our Pune office.

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.