Banking UCRM Salesforce Engineer
Barclays · Posted Oct 21
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is evolving its digital landscape to deliver business, platform, and technology capabilities for customers and colleagues. This Banking UCRM engineering role sits across the Salesforce and Java stacks, designing and building integrated solutions between Salesforce and Java services plus downstream systems. The engineer develops high-quality, secure, performant software, collaborates with product and design peers on requirements and architecture, and provides technical leadership across both stacks.
What you will do
- 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.
- To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong hands-on expertise in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and SOQL.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce architecture, data model, governor limits, and security model.
- Experience building and maintaining Salesforce integrations using REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, and asynchronous patterns.
- Experience with OmniStudio (FlexCards, OmniScripts, DataRaptors, Integration Procedures) is a strong plus.
- Salesforce Platform Developer II certification (preferred).
- Experience with Salesforce CI/CD and DevOps practices (Git, automated deployments, release management).
- Strong hands-on experience in Java (8 or above) with solid fundamentals in OOP, collections, exception handling, and JVM concepts.
- Experience building enterprise Java applications, preferably using Spring / Spring Boot.
- Good understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful service design, and integration patterns.
- Experience with multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization in Java applications.
- Familiarity with batch processing, scheduled jobs, and backend data processing.
- Ability to contribute to or lead future Java-based development initiatives alongside Salesforce work.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end system integration, including Salesforce ↔ Java systems.
- Ability to design solutions that span Salesforce, Java services, and downstream systems.
- Experience working with databases (SQL-based) and understanding of data synchronization patterns.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to guide teams, review designs/code, and provide technical leadership across Salesforce and Java stacks.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across multiple business and IT environments globally.
- Prior experience working in investment banking or financial services (nice to have).
- Proactive team player with well-developed interpersonal and mentoring skills.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and adapt to changing demands.
- Proven ability to remain calm and effective in high-pressure situations.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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