Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP

Barclays Capital; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Capital seeks a Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP to design, develop, and implement scalable cloud solutions in collaboration with stakeholders. You will balance technology risks with business delivery and drive consistency across platforms.

The role emphasizes governance, security best practices, and cost-aware design while enabling elastic, serverless, and containerised architectures in line with Barclays’ standards.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cloud-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of AWS services.
• Experience with governance and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cloud-based solutions and products that can evolve to meet business requirements.
• Assess architecture for risk, capacity and run cost impacts; design for elasticity and resiliency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand needs and translate into technical designs.
• Apply security principles (defense in depth, reduce blast radius) in all designs.
• Provide fault finding and performance issue support with operations teams.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Security principles

Governance processes

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

CloudFormation

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank's resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

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 escal...

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 Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear-to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will architect and ship agenti