Lead Backend Engineer -VP

Join us as a Lead Backend Engineer -VP at Barclays, where you'll take part in the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders. 

To be successful as a Lead Backend Engineer -VP, you should have experience with:

• Own the application database landscape for Cash Settlements and Post‑Trade platforms, covering Oracle, SQL Server, and Elasticsearch & ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and data integrity for business‑critical settlement systems operating at scale.

• Lead database performance tuning and capacity planning for high‑volume, low‑latency settlement and payment workloads & define and implement data lifecycle management strategies, including archival, purge, and retention, aligned to regulatory, audit, and business requirements.

• Design and govern scalable data models and access patterns to support growth in settlement volumes and evolving business use cases.

• Partner with application architects and engineering teams to design robust data solutions across the post‑trade settlement lifecycle (trade events, enrichment, validation, exception management, payment generation, settlements, reconciliation) & advise on and implement data resilience strategies, including HA/DR design, failover testing, and recovery automation.

• Provide technical leadership on data consistency, idempotency, lineage, and traceability, supporting control and risk frameworks & support search, analytics, and operational visibility use cases using Elasticsearch and related platforms.

• Contribute to modernisation initiatives, including migration, re‑platforming, and adoption of cloud‑based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) & embed database engineering standards into CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and operational runbooks.

• Communicate database risks, trade‑offs, and design decisions clearly to senior technology, operations, and risk stakeholders.

• Strong hands‑on expertise in Oracle and SQL Server, including performance tuning, HA/DR, backup/recovery, and capacity management.

• Experience operating Elasticsearch in largescale, production environments & deep understanding of data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and transactional vs analytical workloads.

• Proven experience supporting mission‑critical financial systems with strict SLA and resilience requirements.

Some other highly valued skills may include: 

• Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms & exposure to hybrid and cloud‑native data architectures.

• Familiarity with automation, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, and modern DevOps practices.

• Strong understanding of event‑driven and API‑based architectures and their data implications.

• Solid grasp of data governance, retention, and audit controls in regulated environments.

 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 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

• 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.