Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.

Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.

Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.

Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.

Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

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 – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a Engineering Lead where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of colleague experience team by leading & managing engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

To be a successful Engineering Lead, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience managing engineering teams of 10+ members along with the ability to coach and develop technical talent. Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Kafka and workflow engines like JBPM/Kamunda.
• Proficiency in React and Micro Frontend Architecture, Liquibase for database version control. Familiarity with OpenShift (ApaaS) and AWS cloud services. Experience with Oracle Coherence or similar distributed caching solutions.
• Experience deploying applications on OpenShift or Kubernetes, together with API Gateway patterns and implementations. Proficiency with Helm for Kubernetes package management. Experience is designing high performance applications maintaining the quality parameters. Java v.8+ and above. Must have solid understanding of Core Java, REST API's, Concurrency. Experience in memory management, profiling, etc.
• Cloud Concepts and Developer Lifecycle on AWS. Spring Boot v.2+, v.3+, Spring Batch, Spring JDBC, Hibernate JPA. Working experience in SOLID principles, design patterns.
• Junit, Mockito, Power Mock, Spring testing framework, etc. Applied knowledge of design and integration patterns. Experience deploying applications with Docker and Kubernetes. Versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket or GitLab.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• A self-starter with good communication and stakeholder management skills. Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and modular design principles. Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Experience of DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Nexus, Gitlab, Jira etc. Experience in working & configuring wide range of AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, Elastic Load Balancers, EC2, MSK, RDS – Oracle preferred. Good experience in Cloud technology like AWS (OpenShift etc.).
• Build and Deployment tools (CI/CD, Jenkins). Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives. Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement. Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

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 Bangalore.