Engineering Lead

Barclays; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape and deliver customer-facing products within Barclays' payments business. You will combine hands-on technical work with people leadership to guide engineering teams, influence technical direction and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

The role is based in London with a hybrid working model requiring three days in the office weekly and potential on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology solutions in a production environment.
• Extensive software engineering experience with broad understanding of modern tech stacks.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery practices for continuous improvement.
• People leadership experience including coaching, development and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software delivery

Agile / Lean

People leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Rust

Kotlin

Typescript

Cloud-native platforms

Event-driven architecture

Job description

As an Engineering Lead within BarclaycardPayments, you will help shape and deliver customer-facing products that support one of the UK's leading payments businesses. Combining hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, you will guide engineering teams, influence technical direction and drive the delivery of scalable, resilient solutions.

Barclays' payments acceptance business processes billions of pounds of payments annually for businesses across the UK. Through our strategic partnership with Brookfield Asset Management, we are transforming the business into a standalone fintech focused on innovation, growth and customer outcomes.

As anEngineering Lead, you will lead a Product Delivery team responsible for building, delivering and operating products end-to-end. Working closely with Engineering, Product and business stakeholders, you will support the development of engineers, improve delivery practices and help ensure technology solutions meet customer and business needs.

To be successful as an Engineering Lead you should have:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology solutions in a production environment.
• Extensive software engineering experience, with a broach understanding of modern technology stacks.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery practices to support continuous improvement.
• People leadership experience, including coaching, development and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional skills of value include:

• Experience within payments, fintech or other technology-led environments.
• Knowledge of AI, machine learning or emerging technology trends.
• Experience with technologies such as Rust, Kotlin, Typescript and cloud-native platforms.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, DevOps practices and CI/CD methodologies.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies.

This role is based in London. We support a hybrid working model, with colleagues expected to attend the office three daysper week. Participation in an on-call rota may also be required.

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.

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 elevate 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.