Engineering Director - Loans & Affordability
Barclays · Posted Oct 29
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays' Loans & Affordability function delivers software solutions supporting lending and affordability products within the bank. The engineering organisation focuses on high-quality, standards-driven delivery in collaboration with product, design, and business stakeholders. This director role leads and manages engineering teams in Pune, owning technical guidance, resourcing, budgeting, process improvement, and senior stakeholder engagement.
What you will do
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made 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.
- Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the 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 often 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/ businesses divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
- All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- 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.
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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