Engineering Manager

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Lead Engineering Manager in London to lead engineering delivery across strategic programmes. You will provide technical oversight, stakeholder leadership, and hands-on guidance to ensure successful outcomes.

The role requires a strong background in Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and relational databases, with a focus on architecture, reviews, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Hybrid work model in London is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex software.
• Hands-on software engineering background with recent practice.
• Expertise designing, developing, reviewing and supporting enterprise-scale solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively to deliver high-quality software within scope, time and budget.
• Mentor and coach engineers, driving performance reviews and growth.
• Oversee timelines, allocation, risk management and prioritisation for delivery.
• Enforce coding standards, peer reviews, testing practices and production readiness.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and stakeholders to map requirements to technical solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Java 21+

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Kubernetes

MongoDB

RDBMS (Oracle/PostgreSQL)

Tools

CI/CD

Code reviews

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role To lead and manage engineering teams, 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.

Accountabilities

Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives. Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget. Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement. Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity. Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

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.

Join us as a Lead Engineering Manager at Barclays, where you will lead engineering delivery across strategic programmes, providing technical oversight, stakeholder leadership, and direction to engineering teams to ensure successful business outcomes. Drive engineering excellence, influence technical decisions, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role is expected to remain close to the technology and engineering lifecycle. Successful candidates will have recent practical software engineering experience and be comfortable reviewing code, challenging technical designs, troubleshooting complex production issues, and guiding engineering teams through hands‑on technical leadership.

To be successful as a Lead Engineering Manager

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, driving accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, and successful delivery outcomes.
• Strong technical background with recent hands‑on software engineering experience.
• Demonstrable expertise in designing, developing, reviewing, and supporting enterprise-scale solutions using Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and relational database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS).
• Ability to actively contribute to architecture, code reviews, technical design discussions, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and production issue resolution.
• Experience managing end-to-end engineering delivery, ensuring programmes are delivered efficiently through effective planning, prioritisation, governance, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to remain technically current and contribute to solution design, engineering standards, platform modernisation, and technology strategy.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Hands‑on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, microservices, event‑driven architectures, and cloud‑native platforms using Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and relational databases.
• Proven track record of driving engineering quality through code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience engineering, and operational excellence.
• Experience mentoring engineers through technical coaching, pair programming, design reviews, and engineering best practices.

This role will be based in London. #LI-Hybrid

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard‑working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.