Platform Engineer - AVP

Barclays; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Platform Engineer - AVP to design, build, and improve secure, scalable software platforms across cloud, container, AI, and enterprise environments. You will lead a team, align with business goals, and deliver reusable capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices.

The role is based in Whippany, NJ, with a base salary range of $120,000 to $175,000 and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building secure, scalable software platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud services across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go and building APIs and automation.
• Extensive CI/CD experience and automation tooling.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes and Enterprise deployment.
• Focus on security, vulnerability management, and secure coding practices.
• Developer experience mindset with reusable templates and guardrails.
• Experience with GenAI enablement and AI/ML workload support.
• Leadership, mentorship, and alignment of technology outcomes with business targets.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve software platforms and services.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to shape requirements.
• Lead code reviews and promote engineering excellence.
• Drive secure coding and test automation practices across squads.
• Contribute to architecture and platform strategy across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Mentor engineers and align tech outcomes with business goals.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Python/Java/Go

CI/CD

IaC

Docker & Kubernetes

Platform observability

Security & risk

DX / Developer experience

GenAI / AI

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. ‘Complex’ information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Platform Engineer - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will build secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms that accelerate innovation across cloud, container, AI, and enterprise environments. Join a team that empowers engineers through reusable capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices, giving you the opportunity to make a broad impact while shaping the future of banking technology.

To be successful as a Platform Engineer - AVP, you should have:

• Considerable cloud engineering foundations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including computer, networking, storage, IAM, encryption, serverless, containers, and highly available multi-region or multi-AZ architecture

• Experience software engineering capability in Python, Java, or Go, with the ability to build APIs, automation tools, infrastructure services, backend components, and clean, testable, maintainable code

• Deep CI/CD and automation experience, including build, test, deploy pipelines, release automation, rollback strategies, secrets management, artifact promotion, and reusable pipeline templates for multiple teams

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management experience using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent, with an emphasis on repeatability, auditability, scalability, and controlled change

• Containerization and orchestration knowledge, including Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Helm, GitOps, container registries, image hardening, and enterprise-grade deployment practices

Other highly valued skills include:

• Platform observability and reliability knowledge, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, SLOs, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization

• Security, risk, and coordinate awareness, including secure coding, vulnerability management, access structure, policy-as-code, data protection, and operational resilience

• Developer experience and platform-product thinking, with the ability to create self-service capabilities, reusable templates, golden paths, documentation, and guardrails that improve engineering productivity

• AI platform and GenAI enablement skills, including LLM integration, RAG patterns, embeddings, agentic frameworks, model serving, prompt safety, and AI/ML workload support

• Enterprise collaboration and leadership capability, including mentoring engineers, influencing architecture strategies, guiding stakeholders, and aligning technology outcomes with business targets

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000
Maximum Salary: $175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.