Engineering Manager - Vice President

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Global Services Centre in Pune seeks an Engineering Manager - Vice President to lead engineering teams, delivering high-quality software solutions through strong technical guidance and cross-functional collaboration.

You will shape strategy, manage resources and budgets, and drive continuous improvements in architecture, deployment pipelines, and governance to align with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on software engineering experience with a technical leadership role.
• Experience with React Native, iOS (Swift/Obj-C), and Android.
• Proficiency in React.js and frameworks (Angular, Vue.js).
• Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Strong understanding of AI-native, multi-agent architectures with governance controls.
• Leadership across large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience driving reliability, resilience, automation, and SDLC optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams, providing technical guidance and mentorship.
• Oversee timelines, resource allocation, risk management, and task prioritization.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Enforce standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices.
• Drive reliability, automation, and continuous SDLC improvements.

Skills

Mobile expertise

Web expertise

Technical stack

AI architectures

Distributed systems

Reliability/SDLC

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

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 escalation of 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.

The role at Barclays

Join us as an Engineering Manager - Vice President at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

To be a successful Engineering Manager - Vice President, you should have experience with:

• Education: Bachelor's or master's in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience: Hands‑on experience in software engineering, with experience in a technical leadership role.
• Mobile Expertise: Experience with React Native, native iOS (Swift/Objective‑C), and Android (Java/Kotlin).
• Web Expertise: Proficiency in React.js or similar frameworks (Angular, Vue.js).
• Technical Stack: Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Strong understanding of AI-native, agentic, and multi-agent architectures with appropriate governance controls.
• Engineering leadership across large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience driving reliability, resilience, automation, and SDLC optimization.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead teams, manage delivery, and foster collaboration.

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:

• Experience in financial services or regulated environments.
• Strong Problem‑solving skill and stake holder management.

The role is based out of Pune.

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.