Engineering Manager - VP

慨正橡扯; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Barclays is looking for an Engineering Manager VP located in Pune, India. This role involves leading engineering teams, managing Salesforce solutions, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. You will play a key role in driving innovation and operational excellence within the organization.

Ideal candidates should have a strong background in Salesforce solutions, project management, and team leadership. This position also emphasizes risk management and compliance with enterprise governance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Salesforce implementations and architecture.
• Strong knowledge of coding standards, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Capability to review solution designs and ensure compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering teams to achieve project goals.
• Oversee timelines and resource allocation for successful project delivery.
• Collaborate with business partners to align technical solutions with requirements.

Skills

Salesforce solutions

Technical guidance

Project management

Risk management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Salesforce platform

Job description

Join us as an Engineering Manager VP 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 successful as an Engineering Manager VP, you should have experience with:

• Act as a key contributor to technology strategy, roadmap planning and architectural decisionsfor Salesforce-led initiatives.
• Partner closely with Platform Architects, Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to translate business outcomes into scalable, secure Salesforce solutions.
• Own end-to-end delivery of Salesforce programmes, ensuring high-quality, resilient and performant solutions.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practicesincluding coding standards, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing and release management.
• Drive continuous improvement through technical debt management, refactoring strategies and platform optimisation.
• Review solution designs and code to ensure compliance with security, performance, scalability and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Salesforce engineers, technical leads and administrators.
• Support hiring and onboarding of Salesforce talent aligned to long-term platform needs.
• Ensure Salesforce implementations comply with enterprise governance, data privacy, security and risk frameworks.
• Collaborate with Risk, Security and Compliance teams to address audits, controls, vulnerabilities and platform risks.
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery, technical and operational risks.
• Serve as a trusted engineering partner to senior stakeholders, clearly communicating technical trade‑offs and delivery status.
• Manage relationships with system integrators, Salesforce partners and vendors, ensuring quality and value for money.
• Contribute to vendor evaluations, solution assessments and contract governance from a technical perspective.
• Stay current with Salesforce releases and emerging capabilities, assessing relevance and adoption opportunities.
• Champion innovation through proofs of concept, accelerators and reusable assets.
• Drive adoption of modern Salesforce capabilities such as Flow, LWC, API‑led integration, event‑driven architecture and AI featureswhere appropriate.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Build strong engineering capability through coaching, performance management, upskilling and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability and innovationwithin the team.

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.

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 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.