Engineering Manager VP
Barclays · Posted Nov 3
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is seeking an Engineering Manager VP to lead multiple full-stack engineering teams delivering customer-facing and core banking capabilities. The role owns engineering strategy, delivery execution, architecture governance, and AI-enabled productivity across the software development lifecycle, with a focus on infrastructure and deployment pipeline modernization. It is based in Pune and involves leading engineering managers and engineers to build scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
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
- Own end-to-end delivery across multiple feature teams.
- Ensure delivery against business outcomes, OKRs, and strategic priorities.
- Govern engineering metrics including velocity, predictability, quality, deployment frequency, and operational stability.
- Manage delivery risks, dependencies, technical debt, incidents, and production support.
- Provide technical leadership across front-end, back-end, API, integration, and cloud technologies.
- Drive architecture reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable.
- Promote reusable platforms, frameworks, and engineering standards.
- Guide teams on modern engineering practices and technology adoption.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across teams.
- Leverage tools such as Copilot, Claude, and enterprise AI platforms to improve productivity.
- Enable AI-assisted code generation, testing, impact analysis, documentation, and knowledge management.
- Continuously improve engineering efficiency and developer experience.
- Establish and govern standards across design, development, testing, DevOps, security, and reliability engineering.
- Drive platform stability, observability, and operational excellence.
- Reduce technical debt and improve maintainability across applications and services.
- Promote continuous improvement through metrics-driven engineering practices.
- Lead Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Scrum Masters.
- Build high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative engineering teams.
- Drive talent development, succession planning, coaching, and mentoring.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
- You may be assessed on 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
- Extensive experience in software engineering with proven experience leading multiple engineering teams and managers.
- Strong track record of delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes.
- Experience driving engineering strategy and organisational change.
- Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices Architecture.
- Angular, React, and modern front-end frameworks.
- API-led and event-driven architecture.
- Cloud platforms (AWS).
- DevOps, CI/CD, SRE, and Observability.
- Secure and resilient software engineering practices.
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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