Lead Engineer - VP

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.

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 escalate 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.

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – Embark on a transformative journey as Lead Engineer - VP where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Global Platforms Services function within Global Technology and Infrastructure Services department. As a member of the Platform Services Software Engineering team, you will be dedicated to the engineering of user-friendly solutions that facilitate seamless consumption of our Cloud and Middleware platform offerings. With self-service, a high level of automation and ease of integration into application build and release pipelines, encompassing underlying virtualization and container platforms and integrating middleware software to provide a highly useable ecosystem. Your will be part of a team of engineers with accountability / responsibility for the engineering (strategy, architecture, design, build, documentation and testing) of the software components. You will work closely with your colleagues in the wider cloud and middleware organization to bring their products to life as part of a modern developer focused experience.  Additionally, your role requires effective stakeholder management, leadership, and decision-making to support business strategy and risk management

To be successful as a Lead Engineer - VP, you should have experience with:

• Ability to provide technical leadership to complex technical problems. 
• Strong understanding of enterprise design principles to build secure, fault tolerant and scalable systems.
• Strong understanding of Agile application development methodology.  Strong understanding of Cloud concepts, DevOps and CI:CD.
• Strong hands on development experience in Java or or Python any other programming language.
• Experience of API development using REST / SOAP.
• Experience of implementing API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT etc.).
• Experience working with PaaS products, including some experience of container orchestration / management utilizing products such as Red Hat OpenShift / VMWare / AWS / Azure etc.
• Experience working with IaaS and/or PaaS products, including some experience of either virtualization, containerization, orchestration of compute/network/storage.
• Proven track record of delivering automation solutions and Infrastructure as Code
• A strong work ethic - team player, creative, passionate and disciplined.

Some highly valued skills include:

• Coding experience in GoLang, Rust etc
• Coding experience in UI technologies like HTML, JSP, Java Script, Angular JS etc.
• Working knowledge of testing methodologies like TDD, BDD etc and testing automation.
• Working knowledge of release and change management process (ITIL). 
• Working knowledge of Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Terraform.
• Working experience of event bus products such as Kafka.
• Working knowledge of Git (or similar) source code control system.
• Working knowledge of build pipelines with GitLab.
• Working knowledge of build automation and dependency management tools such as Maven/Gradle.
• Working knowledge of cloud security and network concepts.

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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The location of the role is Chennai, IN