GenAI Engineering Development Lead VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a GenAI Engineering Development Lead VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear—to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will architect and ship agentic workflows, RAG, tool‑calling and orchestration, that shorten cycle times. You will raise quality and drive adoption with enterprise‑grade governance from day one, while designing and scaling agents across M365 Copilot/Copilot Studio, Azure and AWS, leveraging leading OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs with privacy and controls built in.

To be successful as a GenAI Engineering Development Lead VP, you should have experience with:

• Building architecture and practical knowledge of building solutions on Azure, AWS and M365 (Azure GenAI Services, SharePoint Online, MS Teams integrations, Power Automate, Power Apps. Design and own production solutions build using RAG, agents, tool-calling, prompt and workflow orchestration, MCP with explicit trade-offs for accuracy, latency, cost, and operability

• Building on Azure, AWS and M365 (Azure GenAI Services, SharePoint Online, MS Teams, Power Automate/Power Apps), with practical knowledge execution across Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry / AI Search / Azure ML and AWS Bedrock / SageMaker, plus core services (Entra/Managed Identity, Key Vault/Private Link, Functions/AKS, APIM; IAM/KMS/VPC, S3, OpenSearch, Lambda/EKS/Step Functions)

• Building with enterprise guardrails—privacy, safety, regulatory compliance, secure‑by‑design patterns—and apply quality engineering, observability, evals and CI/CD throughout

• Automation, integration & data: Proficient in process automation, workflow optimization, data catalogues and enterprise architecture design, with considerable API/integration skills across client–server, SOAP/REST and related protocols/security

• Writing automated unit/integration tests, maintain reliability and performance, and work effectively with legacy code (refactoring and modernization)

Other highly valued skills include:

• Willingness to learn – across business processes, current techniques, and new programming language paradigms

• Product & stakeholder savvy – translate banker needs into clear problem statements, influence roadmaps, and communicate complex AI concepts simply

• LLMOps & evaluation – practical knowledge with prompt design, automated evals (faithfulness/relevance), red‑teaming, and guardrails/content‑safety patterns

• Cost/performance optimization – track token spend and latency, run A/B experiments, tune model routing, and meet metrics with telemetry‑driven decisions

• Agentic & integration ecosystem – familiarity with orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph/LangChain), MCP tool integration, vector stores (Azure AI Search/OpenSearch), and event‑driven APIs

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, implement, and support mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models and analytics used in business decision-making

Accountabilities

• Design analytics and modelling solutions to complex business problems using domain expertise.
• Collaboration with technology to specify any dependencies required for analytical solutions, such as data, development environments and tools.
• Development of high performing, comprehensively documented analytics and modelling solutions, demonstrating their efficacy to business users and independent validation teams.
• Implementation of analytics and models in accurate, stable, well-tested software and work with technology to operationalise them.
• Provision of ongoing support for the continued effectiveness of analytics and modelling solutions to users.
• Demonstrate conformance to all Barclays Enterprise Risk Management Policies, particularly Model Risk Policy.
• Ensure all development activities are undertaken within the defined control environment.

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.