Software Engineering Lead

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 5,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Pune seeks a Software Engineering Lead to design, develop, and modernize enterprise data platforms with REST APIs, microservices, and API management at scale.

You will drive collaboration across product, architecture, and engineering, promote secure coding, CI/CD, and observability, and mentor teams to deliver high-impact financial services solutions.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise-scale API and integration platforms.
• Proven experience delivering customer-facing API solutions in regulated environments.
• Deep expertise in REST, microservices, API management, cloud-native engineering, CI/CD, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and modernization of enterprise data platforms focusing on REST APIs and microservices.
• Collaborate with business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver strategic data transformation initiatives.
• Promote engineering best practices, automation, and cloud adoption across squads.
• Mentor peers and guide teams in secure coding, testing, and risk management.

Skills

REST APIs

Microservices

API Gateways

API Management

Event-driven Architecture

Cloud-native Engineering

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Application Security

Observability & SRE

Java/Spring

Distributed Systems

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 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.

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.

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 escape 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.

Leadership Behaviours

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

Individual Contributor Role

The role includes responsibilities for 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.

Key Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong experience leading enterprise-scale API and integration platforms.


• Proven experience delivering customer-facing digital and enterprise API solutions in a highly regulated environment.


• Deep expertise in REST APIs, Microservices Architecture, API Gateways & API Management Platforms, Event-driven Architecture, Cloud-native Engineering, CI/CD and DevSecOps, Application Security, Observability & SRE practices.


• Strong knowledge of Java/Spring ecosystem, container platforms, middleware technologies, and distributed systems.


• Experience leading Agile delivery at Tribe, Journey, or large-scale product teams.


• Demonstrated success managing technology risk, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.


• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Other Valued Skills

• Banking, Payments, Consumer Lending, Deposits, Cards, or Financial Services experience.


• Experience operating within large-scale Agile or SAFe delivery models.


• Exposure to API monetization, Open Banking, partner ecosystem integrations, and digital platform transformation.


• Experience with cloud transformation and AI-enabled engineering practices.

Job Role Vision

Join us as a Software Engineering Lead at Barclays where you will – Lead the design, development, and modernization of enterprise data platforms, with a strong focus on REST APIs, Microservices Architecture, API Gateways & API Management Platforms, Event-driven Architecture, Cloud-native Engineering, CI/CD and DevSecOps, Application Security and Observability & SRE practices. Collaborate with business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver strategic data transformation initiatives while promoting engineering best practices, automation, and cloud adoption.

Employment Details

The role is based out of Pune.

Company Culture

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.