Engineering & Design Lead

Join us as an Engineering & Design Lead 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.

 You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as:

• Deep understanding of software engineering using modern development tools and languages.

• Hands on experience in working with Cloud technologies (AWS preferred).

• Working knowledge of enterprise database systems (Oracle).

• Experience of building Multi Tenant platform and High Performing systems

• Understanding of DevSecOps concepts including use of tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Cloud Formation etc.

• Strong programming skills in Java and Python with proficiency in object-oriented design principles.

• Experience with Java frameworks such as DropWizard, Spring and Hibernate

• Familiarity with web development frameworks Micro services.

• Experience with Testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Mockito).

• Hands-on experience with building stream-processing systems using Kubernetes and related technologies.

• Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Oracle DB, MongoDB and S3.

• Experience with various streaming platform systems, such as Kafka and messaging platforms Active MQ.

• Experience with Caching solutions like Hazelcast, Redis or MemCache.

• Knowledge of build tools like Maven or Gradle.

• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines especially using Git.

• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux experience.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued

• Knowledge and experience in building scalable platform.

• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making.

• Strong analytical/problem solving mind set with the ability and willingness to get into the details to find solutions.

• Experience in an enterprise technology environment.

• Interpersonal, communication, presentation and influencing skills.

• Strong communication skills with a track record of working and collaborating with global teams.

• Must possess the ability to handle multiple on-going assignments and be able to work independently in addition to contributing as part of a highly collaborative and globally dispersed team.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to break down and communicate complex issues, ideas and solutions.

• Thorough knowledge and experience in all phases of Agile and SDLC.

• Formal external qualification/accreditation in digital technology or methodology.

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 for Pune location.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.