Tech Lead

Join us as a Tech 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 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.

We're seeking an experienced hands on AEM Technical Lead to join our AEM team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering AEM solutions.. Our ideal candidate will have expertise in AEM architecture, development and deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical:

1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable AEM applications. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines is preferred.

2. Collaborate on setting up offers and managing content for marketing pages using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Lead development of AEM components, templates and workflows.

3. Develop unit tests to ensure high code quality and maturity metrics.

4. Implement scalable solutions using scaled agile methodologies.

5. Ensure seamless integration with various stakeholders' systems (business, tech, and product). Collaborate with cross functional teams to integrate AEM solutions.

 Essential skills/Basic qualification:

Leadership:

1. Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and technical expertise on AEM.

2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical innovation and excellence.

3. Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation and continuous learning.

Requirements:

Technical Skills:

1. 8+ years of experience in AEM development, architecture, deployment.

2. Strong understanding of AEM components, templates, workflows and security.

3. Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) integration and proficiency in Java, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

4. Proficiency in unit testing and code quality metrics.

5. Familiarity with scaled agile methodologies.

Desired skills/Preferred qualification:

1. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

2. Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

3. Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

4. Collaborative mindset with a focus on team success.

This role is based in Pune.

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements. 

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.