VP - Post Trade Core Services Tech

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Pune seeks a Post Trade Core Services Tech to lead design, development, and operation of scalable, secure infrastructure and deployment pipelines for mission‑critical platforms.

You will drive the full software lifecycle, mentor engineers, and collaborate across regions while enforcing secure coding and observability practices in a fast paced environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, architecture, and delivery of large‑scale, mission‑critical enterprise platforms.
• Expert‑level Java development with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with Oracle databases, data modelling, SQL performance tuning, and high‑volume transaction processing systems.
• Proven experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns and distributed systems using messaging and event‑driven architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka and real‑time streaming solutions in high‑throughput environments.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions using industry aligned languages, frameworks, and tools; ensure scalability, maintainability and performance.
• Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and align with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of technology trends and contribute to technology communities to foster growth.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect data.
• Implement effective unit testing to ensure code quality and reliability.

Skills

Java development

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Microservices

Architecture

Domain-driven design

Object-oriented design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Production systems

Tools

Kafka

Camunda BPM

SQL tuning

Oracle DB

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Observability tools

CI/CD pipelines

Event-driven

Job description

Join us as a Post Trade Core Services Tech, 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 a Post Trade Core Services Tech, you should have experience with:

• Significant experience in software engineering, architecture, and delivery of large‑scale, mission‑critical enterprise platforms.
• Expert‑level Java development experience with strong knowledge of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Strong experience with Oracle databases, data modelling, SQL performance tuning, and high‑volume transaction processing systems.
• Proven experience implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns and distributed systems using messaging and event‑driven architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka and real‑time streaming solutions in high‑throughput environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing workflow and orchestration solutions using Camunda or equivalent BPM/workflow platforms.
• Deep understanding of object‑oriented design principles, design patterns, domain‑driven design, and system design.
• Demonstrated experience leading the full software development lifecycle including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, operational support, and continuous improvement.
• Proven track record managing production‑critical systems with accountability for availability, resilience, performance, observability, supportability, and operational risk management.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks to ensure platform stability and service reliability.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices, application security, resiliency, and control frameworks.
• Experience leading technical teams, driving engineering excellence, conducting design reviews, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering with business, operations, control, and technology teams.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Experience within Financial Services, particularly Post Trade Processing, Cash Settlements, Payments, or Transaction Banking platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SWIFT MT/MX messaging, payment formats, payment lifecycle processing, and payment controls.
• Experience delivering regulatory, remediation, risk reduction, or control‑driven technology initiatives.
• Experience modernizing large monolithic platforms into cloud‑ready, microservices‑based architectures.
• Knowledge of event‑driven architecture, CQRS, asynchronous processing, and distributed transaction patterns.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and DevSecOps practices.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, real‑time search platforms, and operational analytics solutions.
• Experience implementing resiliency patterns including circuit breakers, retries, failover mechanisms, active‑active deployments, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong background in operational excellence, SRE principles, production support, incident management, and service reliability.
• Experience working in globally distributed organizations and leading delivery across multiple regions and stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Stack, Grafana, or similar technologies.
• Prior experience serving as Technical Lead, Lead Architect, Engineering Lead, or Application Owner for a business‑critical platform.
• Exposure to APAC payment ecosystems and cross‑border payment processing would be advantageous.

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 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.

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.
• 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.