Application Development Team Lead

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

• 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.

Join Barclays as an Application Development Team Lead. At Barclays, we are building the bank of tomorrow. As an Application Development Team Lead you will design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

To be a successful Application Development Team Lead, you should have experience with:

• Leading a large distributed development team, Solution design and development of enterprise scale financial applications. Delivery of solutions that utilise the following concepts:

  
  

  Version Control Management Systems, including GIT and TFS.

  
  

  Continuous Integration Platforms, including Team City and TFS.

  
  

  Software Component Management Systems including Nexus.

  
  

  Code Quality Systems with TDD/BDD implemented.

  
  

  Automated Deployment Solutions, including Nolio and Jenkins.

  
  

• Excellent understanding of SOA and n-tier development. Proven solution design and documentation skills within an IT project background. Excellent understanding of software design patterns, AI, ML and LLM.

  
  

• Understanding of Cloud computing, especially AWS is highly desirable. Good project experience ideally within the banking sector. Must be able to demonstrate good stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills, with strong and influential personal credibility.

  
  

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued (Desired):

• Agile, DevOps, Lean, ITIL, AWS and other cloud technologies (Azure, etc.). Chef, Docker, Groovy, Gradle/Maven, Shell, Powershell, ELK, Appd, CloudBees Flow.

  
  

• Understanding of operating systems including Windows Server (all versions) and Linux (Red Hat desirable). Experience of managing development resource within a strong matrix organization.

  
  

• Knowledge and demonstrable practical understanding of delivering change projects into ITIL based organizations. Knowledge and understanding of other enterprise applications suites, including analysis tools (such as ELK), NoSQL databases, Big data solutions, Warehousing technologies is desirable.

  
  

You may be assessed on 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.

This role is based in Pune.