Lead Engineering Manager: Drive Tech Strategy & Delivery

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

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.