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Date live: Oct. 27, 2025

Business Area: Cards Platform

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: JR-0000061384

Contract: Permanent

Embark on a transformative journey as Engineering Lead- Java at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital connectivity landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. You will be working as technology enthusiasts with relevant experience and with Object oriented programming skills who can deliver product engineering capabilities for the applications serving millions of customers in the US .

To be successful in this role as a Engineering Lead- Java , you should possess the following skillsets:

  • Hands-on Engineer Lead in Java, Cloud, CI/CD, AI tech stack
  • Very good in Project Management and Program/Dependency Management.
  • Exceptional Stakeholder Management skills.
  • Great Collaboration skills and a go-getter.
  • Very Strong understanding of Object Oriented Design using Java or any other Language. Strong experience in Java 21.
  • Hands on experience in JEE frameworks e.g. Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot,  JPA or other ORM frameworks.
  • Hands on experience on Microservices/REST endpoints Architecture. Good understanding Service Discovery, Load Balancing, Resiliency, etc.
  • Strong Understanding of Messaging concepts and technologies Active MQ/RabbitMQ etc.
  • Strong DevOps concepts and understanding of Open source cloud technologies. AWS, OpenShift will desired. Authentication – OAuth, OAuth 2
  • Experience in Build tools like, Maven/Gradle etc. Experience with Devops tools, Gitlab Pipelines, AI/Gen AI use cases etc.

Some other highly valued skills include:

  • Enterprise Containerization technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift etc.
  • Experience in TDD (Test Driven Development), Junit, Mockito.
  • Experience in Code Scan tools – Sonarqube, Veracode, Prisma Scan, etc.
  • Experience with API development and integration with 3rd party vendors.

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 build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure. 

Accountabilities

  • Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
  • Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
  • Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
  • Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.

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.

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