Framework Delivery Lead

Join us as a Framework Delivery Lead at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions. 

To be successful as a Framework Delivery Lead, you should have experience with:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Progressive IT experience, including 7+ years leading the design and delivery of enterprise-grade web and API integration solutions.
• Proven leadership in high-pressure environments, with a track record of guiding cross-functional engineering teams, resolving production-critical issues, and ensuring platform stability and performance.
• Technical exposure in Java, Spring, Kafka, Solace/MQ, RESTful APIs, and Public Cloud providers like Azure/AWS, with hands-on experience in architecting scalable, secure, and compliant solutions.
• Understanding of API-first design principles and modern integration patterns, including asynchronous processing and microservices.
• Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven design using message queues.
• Understanding of web service security protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, and mTLS.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and deliver measurable outcomes aligned with compliance and regulatory standards.
• Exposure to GenAI stack like RAG , chatbot development and usage of AI coding agents.
• Skilled in leading code reviews, architecture governance, and mentoring engineering teams across geographies.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity).
• Database design and optimisation capabilities, including writing SQL queries.
• Analytical mindset with a focus on data quality, integrity, and traceability.
• Agile delivery experience with a solid grasp of Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and articulate technical concepts in business terms.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Ability to proactively identify delivery risks, manage dependencies, and escalate blockers to ensure timely execution.
• Strong documentation skills, particularly in system architecture, compliance workflows, and operational readiness.
• Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and driving cultural change within engineering teams.
• Collaborative team player with experience working across distributed teams and time zones.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks, continuous integration, and test-driven development practices.
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Prior experience in the Banking, Financial Services, or Compliance domains is highly desirable.

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. 

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

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.