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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. Build secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms that accelerate innovation across cloud, container, AI, and enterprise environments. Empower engineers through reusable capabilities, automation, and modern engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Ensure 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 and contribute to technology communities.
- Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
- Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work impacting the business function.
- Set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
- Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
- Identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
- Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, utilizing cross-functional methodologies or practices.
- Consult on complex issues and provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Perform work closely related to other areas, understanding how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
- Collaborate with other areas for business-aligned support, staying updated on business activity and strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information, including sensitive or difficult-to-communicate content.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).
Requirements
- Considerable cloud engineering foundations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including computer, networking, storage, IAM, encryption, serverless, containers, and highly available multi-region or multi-AZ architecture.
- Experience in software engineering capability in Python, Java, or Go, with the ability to build APIs, automation tools, infrastructure services, backend components, and clean, testable, maintainable code.
- Deep CI/CD and automation experience, including build, test, deploy pipelines, release automation, rollback strategies, secrets management, artifact promotion, and reusable pipeline templates for multiple teams.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management experience using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent, with an emphasis on repeatability, auditability, scalability, and controlled change.
- Containerization and orchestration knowledge, including Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Helm, GitOps, container registries, image hardening, and enterprise-grade deployment practices.
- Platform observability and reliability knowledge, including logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, SLOs, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.
- Security, risk, and coordinate awareness, including secure coding, vulnerability management, access structure, policy-as-code, data protection, and operational resilience.
- Developer experience and platform-product thinking, with the ability to create self-service capabilities, reusable templates, golden paths, documentation, and guardrails that improve engineering productivity.
- AI platform and GenAI enablement skills, including LLM integration, RAG patterns, embeddings, agentic frameworks, model serving, prompt safety, and AI/ML workload support.
- Enterprise collaboration and leadership capability, including mentoring engineers, influencing architecture strategies, guiding stakeholders, and aligning technology outcomes with business targets.
- Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills may be assessed.
Skills
- Python
- Java
- Go
- APIs
- Automation tools
- Infrastructure services
- Backend components
- CI/CD
- Build pipelines
- Test pipelines
- Deploy pipelines
- Release automation
- Rollback strategies
- Secrets management
- Artifact promotion
- Reusable pipeline templates
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS/ECS
- Helm
- GitOps
- Container registries
- Image hardening
- Logging
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Dashboards
- SLOs
- Alerting
- Incident response
- Root-cause analysis
- Performance optimization
- Secure coding
- Vulnerability management
- Access structure
- Policy-as-code
- Data protection
- Operational resilience
- Self-service capabilities
- Reusable templates
- Golden paths
- Documentation
- Guardrails
- LLM integration
- RAG patterns
- Embeddings
- Agentic frameworks
- Model serving
- Prompt safety
- AI/ML workload support
- Mentoring engineers
- Influencing architecture strategies
- Guiding stakeholders
- Aligning technology outcomes with business targets
Location
- Whippany, NJ
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Assistant Vice President (AVP)
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000
- $175,000
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances
- Incentive award
About the Company
- Barclays is redefining the future of banking and helping craft innovative solutions.
- Our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.