Lead Front-End Engineer - iOS and Android

Barclays Business Banking; Northampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading banking institution as a Lead Front-End Engineer specializing in iOS and Android. You'll be responsible for driving software innovation, developing high-quality solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role offers opportunities to leverage your technical skills and contribute to strategic projects within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Good experience in frontend development, ideally in Java and native.
• Comprehensive DevOps knowledge and experience.
• Experience with building applications with Docker and deploying to Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements.
• Adherence to secure coding practices.

Skills

Analytical/problem solving mindset

Excellent interpersonal skills

Experience with Scaled Agile

Stakeholder management skills

Job description

Lead Front-End Engineer - iOS and Android

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Step into the role of a Lead Front-End Engineer - iOS and Android where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.

To be successful as a Lead Front-End Engineer - iOS and Android, you should have experience with:

• History of producing high quality, complex and mission critical software to solve a wide variety of problems.
• Good experience in frontend development, ideally in Java and native
• Experience with building applications with Docker and deploying to enterprise scale Kubernetes or OpenShift environments
• Comprehensive DevOps knowledge and experience, including using tools to ensure high quality software is built and deployed to production
  
  

Some Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Analytical/problem solving mindset with excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and influencing skills
• Experience with Scaled Agile, product development and CX service design
• Experience in collaborating with teams in shaping and delivering software using agile methodologies
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and leverage relationships and influence decision-making across a range of senior stakeholders and SMEs.
  
  

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

This role can be based out of either our Northampton or Knutsford campus.

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 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.

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Seniority level

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  Mid-Senior level

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  Full-time

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  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking

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