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About the Role

Design, develop, and improve software utilizing various engineering methodologies to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, contributing to technology communities to foster technical excellence and growth.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Build and lead the global Front-Office (FO) engineering success function across New York, London, and APAC.
• Build trusted relationships with Quants and Strats worldwide, understanding differing desk-specific needs.
• Prioritize and manage work intake globally based on business impact and urgency.
• Serve as the voice of FO users to influence platform roadmap and feature prioritization.
• Write high-quality Python code for automation, integrations, internal utilities, and FO tooling.
• Diagnose complex issues across cloud (AWS), distributed systems, Python stacks, notebooks, model pipelines, and APIs.
• Deliver engineering solutions that reduce recurring FO friction and accelerate delivery.
• Guide global front-office teams on secure and scalable usage of AWS services (S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch, Glue, CDK/CloudFormation).
• Provide hands-on help with debugging, deployment, permissions, networking, and performance on AWS.
• Help global FO teams onboard onto platform AI features such as inference gateways, embeddings, evaluation tools, and tracing.
• Provide guidance on AI/ML concepts: model inference, RAG, embeddings, vector stores, latency optimisation, guardrails.
• Support adoption of tools such as LiteLLM, MLflow, Langfuse, Mem0, Databricks, SageMaker, and Observe.
• Establish global support processes, workflows, and standards.
• Identify patterns in recurring issues and partner with platform engineering to eliminate them via features or automation.
• Develop and maintain documentation, onboarding guides, and best practices tailored for FO developers.
• Drive proactive monitoring of systems impacting FO teams.
• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers focused on FO success.
• Set strong engineering standards for code quality, reliability, and FO responsiveness.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, empathy, accountability, and excellence.
• Ensure all FO support and deployment workflows comply with governance, model controls, and data privacy requirements.
• Promote secure-by-default patterns across global FO usage.
• Help enforce model governance standards and audit requirements.

Requirements

• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline, alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others).
• Demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).
• Strong Python engineering experience (backend, tooling, automation, debugging).
• Hands-on expertise with AWS: IAM, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, CloudWatch.
• Proven experience working with Quants, Strats, or front-office engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of AI/ML concepts (inference, vector search, embeddings, RAG, evaluation).
• Strong debugging abilities across cloud infra, Python environments, containers, and pipelines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in high-pressure FO environments.
• Experience leading a technical team or owning a global-facing engineering function.

Skills

• Python
• AWS
• IAM
• S3
• Lambda
• ECS/EKS
• Step Functions
• CloudWatch
• Glue
• CDK/CloudFormation
• AI/ML concepts
• Model inference
• RAG
• Embeddings
• Vector stores
• Latency optimisation
• Guardrails
• LiteLLM
• MLflow
• Langfuse
• Mem0
• Databricks
• SageMaker
• Observe
• Docker
• Observability tooling

Location

• New York
• London
• APAC

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Leadership

Salary/Compensations

• $220,000
• $300,000

About the Company

• Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.