Global Front-Office Platform Engineering Lead

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; City of Niagara Falls (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in New York seeks a senior software leader to design, develop, and optimize high‑quality Python‑based solutions for front‑office engineering. You will guide global FO teams, advance automation, and ensure secure, scalable cloud architecture across AWS services.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with Quants and Strats, and a commitment to engineering excellence, developer productivity, and risk governance within a fast‑moving financial environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering experience (backend, tooling, automation, debugging).
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (IAM, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch).
• Experience collaborating with quants, strats, or front-office teams.
• Solid understanding of AI/ML concepts (inference, embeddings, vector stores).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management in high-pressure environments.
• Experience leading a technical team or global engineering function.

Responsibilities

• Global Front-Office engineering leadership across New York, London, and APAC.
• Write high-quality Python code for automation, integrations, internal utilities, and FO tooling; diagnose complex issues across cloud and pipelines.
• AWS Engineering: guide secure, scalable usage of AWS services (S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch).
• AI/ML enablement: onboard FO teams to platform AI features; guidance on model inference, embeddings, evaluation tools.
• Developer Experience & Operational Excellence: establish support processes, documentation, onboarding guides, and monitoring.
• Leadership & Mentorship: lead and mentor a small team; set high standards for FO responsiveness and code quality.
• Governance & Risk Management: ensure compliance with governance, data privacy, and model governance.

Skills

Python

AWS

Front-office engineering

AI/ML concepts

Debugging

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

LiteLLM

MLflow

Databricks

SageMaker

Langfuse

Observe

Mem0

Docker

ECS/EKS

Job description

Barclays in New York seeks a senior software leader to design, develop, and optimize high‑quality Python‑based solutions for front‑office engineering. You will guide global FO teams, advance automation, and ensure secure, scalable cloud architecture across AWS services.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with Quants and Strats, and a commitment to engineering excellence, developer productivity, and risk governance within a fast‑moving financial environment.