VP Engineering Lead

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 15,000,000 - 20,000,000; Full time

Job summary

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent in Pune, India is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and improve software that enhances technology capabilities for customers. You will lead cross-functional collaboration to define software requirements and ensure integration with business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in delivering large-scale Salesforce platforms and building high-performing engineering teams. This role emphasizes risk management, secure coding practices, and agile delivery models.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale Salesforce platforms in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on leadership in platform transformation and technical debt reduction.
• Ability to mentor and retain high-performing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Lead engineering teams and oversee platform integrity.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to protect sensitive data.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Salesforce platform expertise

Agile methodologies

Risk and control knowledge

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for inclusion of 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, in support of the control and governance agenda, and demonstrate leadership and accountability for strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• 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.
• Lead engineering teams and partners to deliver value through agile delivery models, while ensuring strong governance, risk management, and platform integrity in a regulated environment.
• Lead the ongoing transformation of Salesforce capabilities, championing user and customer needs, engineering excellence, and a collaborative, data‑led way of working.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience delivering large‑scale Salesforce platforms (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, custom platform capabilities) in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, working with global business leads, product teams, and technology partners to align strategy and execution.
• Hands‑on experience leading platform transformation, modernisation, and technical debt reduction, with a strong focus on scalability and reuse.
• Ownership of end‑to‑end Salesforce architecture, including integrations, data flows, security, CI/CD, and environment strategy.
• Leading delivery across Salesforce platforms through agile engineering teams, guiding prioritisation, managing dependencies, and ensuring predictable outcomes.
• Establishing and enforcing platform governance, risk, and control frameworks, including release management, access control, and audit readiness.
• Experience working in banking or other regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, data platforms, and identity/access management.
• Proven ability to build, mentor, and retain high‑performing engineering teams and manage strategic vendors.
• Ability to operate effectively at both strategic leadership level and deep engineering detail when required.

High‑Valued Skills

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology leadership
• Job‑specific technical and platform engineering

Location: Pune, India.