Java Tech Lead-VP

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent is seeking a Vice President to lead software development initiatives in Pune, India. This role involves designing and improving software while managing teams and ensuring technical excellence.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java, Spring Framework, and managing complex technology programmes. Leadership skills and a focus on best coding practices are essential to foster growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience with managing complex technology programmes with strong delivery discipline.
• Establishing engineering best practices for code quality and performance.
• Proven experience in platform modernisation and legacy transformation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and improve software using various engineering methodologies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define software requirements.
• Ensure adherence to secure coding practices and implement unit testing.

Skills

Java (8+) expertise

Spring Framework

SQL & PL/SQL proficiency

Docker/containerisation

Event streaming technologies

CI/CD tooling

Unix/Linux expertise

Ability to manage complex technology programmes

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Job description

Job Description

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 optimised 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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organisation’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 address breaches of policies/procedures.

Leadership responsibilities include leading teams, defining jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance, contributing to employee pay decisions/changes, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.

People Leader Behaviours

• L – Listen and be authentic
• E – Energise and inspire
• A – Align across the enterprise
• D – Develop others

Individual Contributor Expectations

• Act as a subject‑matter expert within one’s discipline and guide technical direction.
• Lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured work.
• Identify the need for other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• 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 and 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.
• Collaborate with other areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.

Qualifications

• Experience with managing complex technology programmes with strong delivery discipline, risk management, and dependency handling.
• Establishing engineering best practices for code quality, performance, security, reliability, and observability.
• Platform modernisation, legacy transformation, and technical debt reduction at enterprise scale.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and operational excellence practices to improve time‑to‑market.
• Modern technology stacks, including microservices, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
• Proven Java (8+) expertise including multithreading, advanced collections, concurrency, and performance‑oriented programming.
• Spring Framework & Spring Boot – building robust backend services, REST APIs, and integration components.
• Hibernate/JPA – ORM, query tuning, caching, and high‑volume data access patterns.
• SQL & PL/SQL proficiency – ability to develop stored procedures, packages, triggers, complex queries, and performance optimisation.
• Message‑based integration using MQ – including producers/consumers, DLQ handling, and reliable message delivery patterns.
• Docker/containerisation exposure, especially for Spring Boot container builds.
• Event streaming technologies – Kafka or similar for real‑time data processing.
• CI/CD tooling – Jenkins & Maven for building pipelines, release automation, and DevOps alignment.
• Unix/Linux expertise – shell scripting, environment debugging, file handling, permissions.
• Unit testing & build/release engineering – ensuring quality, automation, and regression‑safe change deployment.
• Design and build of distributed systems – scalability improvements, optimisation of existing services, and performance tuning.
• Highly valued skills: Angular for UI troubleshooting or full‑stack collaboration; Chef cookbook scripting for configuration management; ELK for observability tooling.
• Strong communication & leadership to influence engineers and collaborate across teams.

Core Values

Demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.