Engineering Excellence Lead
Barclays · Posted Oct 22
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Engineering Excellence Team within Barclays' Development Platform organization focuses on educating, upskilling, and fostering a developer community while championing Development Platform products. The role covers modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure as code, and AI-powered development environments. The Engineering Excellence Lead will build demos, workshops, prototypes, and code samples and help developers adopt new tools and improve their craft in the Pune office.
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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong software engineering background, with hands-on experience in modern development practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, etc.).
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, Go, etc.).
- Ability to build technical demos, hands-on workshops, prototypes, and code samples to support education efforts.
- Excellent public speaking and presentation skills, comfortable addressing audiences of all sizes.
- Good technical writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
- Ability to learn quickly, validate through POCs, and collaborate effectively.
- Foundational understanding of AI concepts and experience with agentic applications.
- Hands-on experience with AI-powered development environments and agentic IDEs.
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in developer education, developer enablement, or technical advocacy.
- Background in hosting technical workshops, hackathons, or meetups.
- Familiarity with open-source software and community-driven development.
- Experience implementing documentation-as-code practices and workflows.
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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