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About the Role

Drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions. This key role involves translating fraud, credit risk, financial crime, compliance, and regulatory needs into clear technology requirements, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.

Responsibilities

Provide guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Contribute to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps.
Design and implement complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives.
Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing.
Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Drive innovation by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies.
Manage and maintain policies and processes.
Deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders using influencing and negotiating skills.

Requirements

Deep expertise in designing and building enterprise-grade AI agents, multi-agent systems, LLM-powered orchestration, real-time decisioning engines, human-in-the-loop workflows, and autonomous risk services.
Proven experience building highly scalable, resilient, cloud-native platforms leveraging event-driven architectures, microservices, streaming technologies, APIs, and real-time processing at enterprise scale.
Hands-on expertise developing mission-critical risk platforms supporting credit risk, fraud detection, underwriting, KYC/KYB, AML, Financial Crime, customer onboarding, and real-time decision management.
Experience operationalizing AI/ML solutions including model lifecycle management, feature engineering, vector databases, RAG architectures, AI governance and production-scale MLOps.
Experience building modern data platforms incorporating data mesh/Lakehouse architectures, real-time analytics, graph technologies, observability and large-scale data processing.
Knowledge of payments, acquiring, merchant services, consumer lending, regulatory compliance, model risk management and responsible AI within highly regulated environments.
Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology expertise.
Job-specific technical skills.

Skills

AI agents
Multi-agent systems
LLM-powered orchestration
Real-time decisioning engines
Human-in-the-loop workflows
Autonomous risk services
Event-driven architectures
Microservices
Streaming technologies
APIs
Real-time processing
Credit risk
Fraud detection
Underwriting
KYC/KYB
AML
Financial Crime
Customer onboarding
Real-time decision management
Model lifecycle management
Feature engineering
Vector databases
RAG architectures
AI governance
Production-scale MLOps
Data mesh
Lakehouse architectures
Real-time analytics
Graph technologies
Observability
Large-scale data processing
Payments
Acquiring
Merchant services
Consumer lending
Regulatory compliance
Model risk management
Responsible AI
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal Engineer
Senior

About the Company

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.
In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.
Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.
Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years.
Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation.
Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

Equal Opportunity

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.