Platform Engineering Lead
Barclays · Posted Oct 16
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Enterprise Data Platform team at Barclays in Pune builds and maintains data platforms and systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data. The role leads design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native, event-driven and data-intensive platform capabilities, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD and secure-by-design architecture. It also drives technical leadership, reusable self-service platforms, and production observability and resilience.
What you will do
- Lead the design and delivery of distributed, event-driven, and data-intensive systems into production environments.
- Drive platform engineering initiatives across cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and secure-by-design architecture.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
- Influence architecture, security, product, and delivery stakeholders to drive pragmatic technology outcomes.
- Navigate governance frameworks and regulatory requirements in a complex enterprise environment.
- Champion automation-first mindset and production-grade engineering practices across platform delivery.
- Build and promote reusable self-service platform capabilities, onboarding models, and integration frameworks.
- Oversee observability, alerting, incident handling, resilience, and continuous improvement for business-critical platforms.
- Ensure solutions meet Barclays standards for Security, Data Privacy, Resilience, and Operational Risk.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Proven software engineering experience designing and delivering distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems into production.
- Strong engineering judgement and automation-first mindset enabling robust, scalable, and efficient technology solutions.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, and scalable platform patterns.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and secure-by-design architecture principles.
- Experience with production-grade engineering practices driving reliable and secure platform delivery at scale.
- Knowledge of platform resilience, recovery strategies, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence architecture, security, product, and delivery stakeholders.
- Experience guiding and mentoring engineering teams through complex technical challenges.
- Ability to navigate governance frameworks and drive alignment between business objectives and technology execution.
- Strong engineering judgement with focus on pragmatic, scalable solutions.
- Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Commitment to secure coding, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to resolve complex production issues.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and container runtime management.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deployment strategies, scaling, troubleshooting, and Helm chart management.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on exposure to streaming and data platform technologies such as Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, Schema Registry, event schemas, connectors, or real-time data pipelines.
- Production operations experience covering observability, alerting, incident handling, resilience, recovery, and continuous improvement for business-critical platforms.
- Experience creating reusable self-service platform capabilities, onboarding models, or integration frameworks that enable teams to adopt platform services safely and efficiently.
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services and cloud-native application development.
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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