Compliance Delivery Lead

Join Barclays as a Compliance Delivery Lead (Vice President) and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital compliance landscape. In this role, you will lead the evolution from traditional UI‑centric solutions to AI‑first, intelligence‑driven experiences, enabling “AI for all” across the organisation. You will also play a key role in driving future integration and alignment with the Colleague CIO organisation as part of our broader digital workplace and platform strategy.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to deliver high‑quality, compliant solutions to a global user base. As a senior technology leader, you will own application and integration architecture within the compliance domain, establish engineering standards, and drive best practices for API‑first and end‑to‑end development using a modern technology stack. Delivery will be executed in an agile model, with a strong focus on resilience, security, and regulatory alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise‑grade web, API, and integration solutions within the compliance domain.

• Own application and integration architecture, driving best practices across the full software development lifecycle.

• Drive the transition from UI‑led solutions to AI‑enabled and API‑driven experiences, supporting the firm’s “AI for all” strategy.

• Partner with the Colleague CIO organisation to enable future platform integration and cohesive colleague experiences.

• Collaborate with Business Analysts, developers, and business stakeholders to translate complex regulatory and business requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Provide technical leadership across distributed, cross‑functional teams, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and operational stability.

• Establish and govern API standards, integration patterns, and engineering best practices across platforms.

What You’ll Bring

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

• Strong command of API‑first design principles, microservices architecture, and event‑driven systems using asynchronous messaging.

• In‑depth understanding of web service security and identity protocols, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and mutual TLS.

• Proven experience leading teams in high‑pressure environments, resolving production‑critical issues, and ensuring platform resilience and performance.

• Demonstrated ability to lead code reviews, architecture governance, and mentoring of engineering teams across geographies.

• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, or TeamCity.

• Strong Agile delivery experience, with a solid working knowledge of Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

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

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.