Senior Engineering and Design Lead

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
• Learning: 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.

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 us as a Senior Engineering and Design Lead within the Application Platforms team at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure transformation, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our infrastructure offerings, ensuring un-paralleled application and developer experiences. As a Lead with technical authority you'll be expected to represent the team, driving technical direction to ensure the team is meeting the requirements of customers, partners and stakeholders. You'll have a technically curious mindset, a passion for learning new things and a willingness to impart your knowledge across the organisation. You'll be in meetings, building relationships to collaborate and work together to get things done. Some days will be coding, and others will be refining documents and technical diagrams. They'll be a drive for the team to commit code and you'll be at the front of this culture change, driving IaC and automation into everything the team does.  To be successful as a Senior Engineering and Design Lead, you should have experience with• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Containers using modern development tools and languages.Strong analytical/problem solving mind set with the ability and willingness to get into the details to find solutions.
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making across the organisation with both technical and non-technical partners.Interpersonal, communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Engineering and automation mindset with a desire to make Barclays infrastructure more efficient, developer friendly, simple, and easy to use and consume.• Evidence of leading on detailed design for enterprise level platforms/solutions.Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in an enterprise technology environment.
• Formal external qualification/accreditation in technology or in a company equivalent technical programme.
• Experience or knowledge of public cloud services used to support and manage containers and container platforms.  

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 skillsThis role is for Pune LocationBarclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific, and any changes should be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.