Engineering & Design Lead

Job Title : Engineering & Design Lead
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working 

Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction:

o    The role requires an experienced, high calibre Designer with good functional, technical skills and product knowledge to work with business stakeholders, solution designers, testers and developers to help deliver change in agreed time, quality and cost parameters.  
o    The role requires to guide Designers, developers to continuously improve in the Programme by disseminating own knowledge within the programme team, allowing others to increase their contribution, and actively contributing to future strategy
o    The role requires understanding of the technology landscape in which the Clearing systems operates, to identify impacts on other systems and communicate effectively with those programmes to support delivery of required outcomes.
o    To translate business requirements into technical requirements, identifying any gaps in end to end flow
o    The role requires a level of technical expertise, knowledge of current best practice and industry trends so as to act as a technical point of reference
o    The role requires ability to lead third line support in investigating production issues and providing resolution.

What will you be doing?

o    Develop a design that meets the requirement specifications by using best practices.
o    Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders, business analysts, solution designers, etc. to understand the requirements and convert them into a technical design. Liaise with technical delivery managers, keeping them updated on progress against milestones, risks and issues.
o    Understand and Adhere to standards already laid out.
o    Manage Design tasks by efficiently to deliver demanding timescales and deadlines.
o    Plan Live Implementation/Deployment activities.
o    Able to peer review design, SQLs and code. 
o    Maintain the product design, ensuring quality and integrity throughout the development lifecycle with minimal post Live issues.
o    Participate in requirement gathering / component impact assessment of PWR’s (provide support to Product engineers to complete above).
o    Planning technical implementation, ensuring that the integrity of live operations will be maintained.
o    Collaborate with the application support / service teams to ensure smooth transition of applications into their BAU environments.
o    Ensuring that all engineering reviews are completed and the introduction of change into the Production environment follows agreed governance processes
o    Retain accountability for the product components and interface links with other applications

What we’re looking for:

•    Experience in designing performant and scalable micro services 
•    Exposure and design experience of client facing web based portal
•    Delivery and Continuous Improvement of a true Micro-Service Architecture
•    SDLC and agile methodology project delivery awareness
•    Participate in planning, analysis and design sessions for new features to be developed.
•    The candidate must be able to work closely with business analysts to take a business requirement through to technical design and coding.
•    The candidate must have a level of technical expertise, knowledge of current best practice and industry trends so as to act as a technical point of reference
•    The candidate must be able to lead and support 3rd line support in investigating production issues and providing resolution.
•    The candidate will be required to support Test team by reviewing Test cases and Test evidences.
•    Provide support to the test team so that they can test the features developed by the candidate.
•    Act as a guarantor of the Programme Design and Delivery functions to ensure quality output in line with business requirements
•    Drive Continuous Improvement in the Programme by disseminating own knowledge within the programme team, allowing others to increase their contribution, and actively contributing to future strategy
•    Use understanding of the technology landscape in which the Clearing systems operates, to identify impacts on other systems and communicate effectively with those programmes to support delivery of required outcomes

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Strong expertise in object oriented programming language, including Core-Java, Oracle/SQL, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Active MQ etc
•    Strong expertise in working on micro-service architecture.
•    Strong expertise in designing for enterprise scale applications 
•    Strong expertise in Design Patterns(Structural and Creational).
•    Should be able to review design and code.
•    Should be able to understand production environment and plan changes.
•    Extensive knowledge of UK Cheque Clearing and Cheque Imaging scheme and industry processes, 
•    Experience in design and development of large systems supported by multiple different technologies
•    Ability to manage competing priorities and to deliver to demanding timescales and deadlines
•    Minimum education qualification-Graduate
•    Build languages such as Gradle with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
•    Developing and integration with Restful web services
•    Understanding of Barclays Clearing Hub environments, aPaaS platforms, applications clients and monitoring solution. 
•    Application support and maintenance experience
•    Corporate Banking domain knowledge beyond Cheques desirable.
•    Experienced practitioner in Jira and Confluence
•    Experience of Cloud Technologies e.g. Redhat/Openshift. V4

Where will you be working?
Pune


Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower 
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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