Vice President-Software Engineer

Step into the role of Vice President-Software Engineer. At Barclays, we are more than a Bank, we are force of progress. As a Vice President-Software Engineer, where you'll play a key role to lead and manage engineering feature teams, owning the technical solution, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. Individual will be involved in design, development, support, enhancement and build-out of strategic applications in our portfolio. This position involves hands-on application development in collaboration with our globally distributed development teams.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Knowledge of ‘Micro-Service’ driven approach to design, build, test and deployment of a major system.

• Experience in Software development consisting of the languages and technologies like Java, J2EE, Spring boot, React, Angular, CCS, CSS pre-processors and Node.js.

• Recognizing, selecting, and applying appropriate Design patterns, frameworks according to business benefit, maintainability and delivery priorities and constrains.

• Writes and review code in adherence to the well-defined acceptance criteria and definition of done.

• Applies product development & engineering best practices.

• Participate in design reviews and provides feedback to the team.

• Creates and Maintains architecture, framework, technical documentation.

• Good knowledge about Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to improve the test coverage and automation of unit and integration test along with the extended testing teams.

• Support best practices and proactively takes measures to empower support teams to resolve issues with agility. 

• Knowledge of integrating testing into the DevOps pipeline for automated build and deployment using tools like Jenkins, Travis CI and similar tools.

• Source code repository management and tools like Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and Gitlab.

• Owns and runs with release tasks and collaborates with Release/BA/QA teams to make sure production releases are performed with high levels accuracy.

• Support, monitoring and troubleshooting of both production and non-production environments.

• Assist L2 Support teams to resolve user queries and production issues.

• Participates in team retrospective / product demo(s) and provides valuable insights and improvements for future development.

• Working knowledge of API development using REST / SOAP based services.

• Knowledge of HTTP protocol and web services.

• Unix hands on for simple scripts, checking logs/processes etc.

• Experience working in an Agile development methodology environment (preferably Scrum/Kanban).

• Working Experience with GIT, Gradle, IntelliJ/Eclipse, JIRA, Understand DevOps principles and Tools.

• Clear & concise verbal and written communication skills.

• Analytical with a structured approach.

• Any experience of Cloud technologies.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• BE / BTech or equivalent.

• End-to-end software development lifecycle.

• Software development methodologies, e.g. Waterfall, Agile.

• Awareness of leading-edge tools, techniques, services within IT.

• Ability to interface with infrastructure and service management areas.

• Good working knowledge and experience with complex business systems and object-oriented design patterns and development.

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. 

The location of the role is Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

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.