Principal Engineer – Apigee X

Barclays UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London seeks a Principal Engineer Apigee X to join their platform engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of external API gateway solutions, ensuring scalability and performance while mentoring engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have strong backgrounds in software engineering, API management, and experience with Google Apigee X. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience with API management and integration.
• Knowledge of cloud-native deployments.
• Understanding of CI/CD tools and API testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and implementation of robust software solutions.
• Mentor engineering teams and foster collaboration.
• Align technical decisions with business goals.

Skills

Software engineering with API management

In-depth knowledge of Google Apigee X

Understanding of RESTful APIs

Experience with Kubernetes

Proficiency in Python

Job description

Join Barclays as a Principal Engineer Apigee X, where you'll be part of a platform engineering team that leads the design, implementation, and governance of our new External API gateway solution for our enterprise. This role will be instrumental in shaping our API strategy, ensuring scalability, security, and performance of our digital platforms, and mentoring engineering teams on best practices.

To be successful as a Principal Engineer Apigee X, you should have experience with:

• Software engineering, with a focus on API management and integration.

• In-depth knowledge of Google Apigee X, including Apigee Hybrid and cloud-native deployments.

• Ample understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and containerized microservices architectures.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, Terraform).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab) and API testing frameworks.

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 London office.

Purpose of the role

To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.

• Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps.

• Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives.

• Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization.

• 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.

• Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process.

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.