VP - Engineering Lead

At Barclays, we don't just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a VP - Engineering Lead within Markets Sales Technology, where you'll play a key role in building and evolving client-facing and sales enablement platforms that support the firm's global Markets business. This role is accountable for delivering scalable, resilient, and high-quality software solutions that improve client engagement, enhance sales productivity, and enable data-driven decision making. Working closely with Product Owners, Architecture, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders, you will contribute to the strategic evolution of Sales Technology platforms while championing modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining business-critical applications, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions meet Barclays' standards for security, resilience, performance, and operational stability.

To be successful as a VP Developer Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Building and supporting enterprise-scale applications using modern software engineering practices and design patterns.

• Developing microservices, APIs, and event-driven solutions within complex distributed environments.

• Delivering solutions using Agile methodologies and contributing throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Designing and implementing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS and associated platform services.

• Developing CI/CD pipelines and automating build, testing, deployment, and operational processes.

• Applying software engineering best practices including code quality controls, automated testing, observability, and technical debt management.

• Integrating applications with enterprise data platforms and downstream business systems.

• Collaborating with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience supporting Sales, CRM, Client Analytics, Research, or Commercial Banking technology platforms.

• Strong knowledge of Java, Python, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern software development frameworks.

• Experience with cloud engineering, DevOps, containerisation, and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Knowledge of AI-assisted software development, GenAI tooling, or intelligent automation capabilities.

• Understanding of software performance engineering, platform resilience, and operational support models.

• Experience working within Financial Services or other regulated environments.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

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 location of the role is Pune, IN.

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.