Platform Engineering Lead

Barclays Business Banking; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as a Platform Engineering Lead, where you will drive innovation and excellence in our digital landscape. This role involves designing and improving software solutions, collaborating across teams, and leveraging modern technologies to enhance our platform capabilities. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in engineering excellence, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in Java or equivalent.
• Expertise in AWS core services.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and improve software using various engineering methodologies.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define software requirements.
• Ensure adherence to secure coding practices.

Skills

Engineering excellence

Cloud and scalable infrastructure

DevOps and automation

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Join us as a Platform Engineering Lead at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings within Foundations Engineering.

To be successful as a Platform Engineering Lead, you should have experience with

• Engineering excellence and technical leadership - hands on engineer with a deep passion for modern technologies and methodologies. Proven track record of delivering world class engineering solutions within complex enterprise domains. experience in Java or equivalent. Exposure to working in polyglot programming languages and willing to adapt and dive into other languages as needed on job.
• Cloud and scalable infrastructure - expertise in AWS core services and infrastructure as code. Skilled in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure platform infrastructure. Passion for working in complex technical domains
• DevOps and automation- strong experience with DevOps tooling,CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab), containerization (Docker) and orchestration technologies. Commitment to automation, efficiency and delivering high quality, developer friendly solutions.
  
  

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Extensive experience in deploying and operating SaaS products on premise with deep understanding of SRE principles and expertise in leveraging monitoring and observability tools like ELK and/or AWS cloud watch. Understanding of configuration management tools like Chef.
• Understanding of Agile Software Engineering practices and experience of working in dynamic teams following scrum development practices. Proficient in implementing SDLC practices.
• AWS certifications
  
  

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 will be based in our Glasgow office

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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  Mid-Senior level

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