Director - Engineering Lead - Digital Investing

Overall Purpose of Role

The Director – Engineering Lead – Digital Investing is accountable for engineering leadership and delivery across Digital Investing platforms within PBWM. The role focuses on building and evolving high‑quality client and colleague experiences that support self‑directed and advised digital investing journeys, underpinned by scalable, secure and resilient digital platforms. 

The role requires a strong understanding of the Digital Investing domain, including end‑to‑end investment journeys such as onboarding to investing, trading and execution, portfolio management and ongoing client servicing, to ensure platforms and experiences are fit for purpose in a regulated environment. 

Operating as a senior member of the Digital Investing leadership team, the role provides deep engineering leadership while leading teams, shaping engineering standards, and partnering closely with Product, UX, Architecture, Operations and Risk to deliver predictable outcomes and sustained engineering excellence. 

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and develop high‑performing engineering teams, fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration and accountability across Digital Investing platforms. 

• Own and execute the engineering roadmap for Digital Investing, aligning frontend, middleware and backend services to PBWM technology strategy and Digital Investing business and client objectives. 

• Drive the design and delivery of modern, intuitive and scalable Digital Investing experiences across web and mobile channels, supported by robust API‑led and service‑based architectures. 

• Provide senior technical leadership across engineering design and delivery, maintaining appropriate hands‑on oversight where needed to drive quality, resolve complexity or accelerate outcomes. 

• Apply Digital Investing domain understanding to translate customer and colleague investment needs into secure, compliant and performant digital journeys. 

• Define, govern and evolve engineering standards, shared components and platform capabilities to enable consistency, reuse and efficient delivery across Digital Investing initiatives. 

• Ensure strong integration patterns, API design and non‑functional performance to support resilient, high‑volume investing and servicing journeys. 

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX designers, Architects, Operations teams and Digital Investing SMEs to ensure strong functional, technical and experience alignment end‑to‑end. 

• Drive continuous improvement across the Digital Investing engineering stack through platform modernisation, tooling improvements, automation and simplification. 

• Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, acting as senior escalation point for complex delivery, technology and production issues. 

• Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise‑Wide Risk Management Framework, and Barclays policies and standards, including security and operational resilience. 

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong engineering leadership experience across digital and full‑stack platforms in complex, regulated environments. 

• Solid understanding of the Digital Investing domain, including customer investment journeys, trading, portfolio management and ongoing servicing. 

• Broad experience with modern frontend technologies and practices, and API‑led, service‑based backend architectures. 

• Proven experience shaping and governing shared engineering platforms, frameworks or capabilities at scale. 

• Strong understanding of engineering quality, non‑functional requirements, security, performance and resilience considerations. 

• Experience working across Agile delivery models and multi‑team, multi‑vendor organisational structures. 

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to provide credible challenge and assurance. 

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across senior technical and business audiences. 

• Understanding of operational resilience, vulnerability management and production support within a regulated financial services environment.