Senior Java Software Engineer -VP
Barclays · Posted Oct 30
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays Technology shapes and delivers the bank’s digital product offerings, using modern engineering practices to meet business requirements. The team works with Java, microservices, cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, and large-scale distributed systems. This VP role leads engineering teams, provides technical guidance and mentorship, and collaborates with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.
What you will do
- To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
- 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
- Expertise in object‑oriented and functional programming.
- Ability to review code and guide engineers on best practices.
- Understanding of domain‑driven design, event‑driven architectures, microservices, System design for large‑scale distributed systems.
- API design (REST, GraphQL), messaging systems, streaming platforms.
- Cloud‑native architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Security fundamentals (authentication, authorization, OWASP, zero‑trust).
- CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps etc).
- Test automation strategy—unit, component, contract, E2E.
- Infra‑as‑Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Performance engineering & shift‑left testing practices.
- Data modelling & data platform fundamentals.
- Reliability practices (SRE, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
- Quality engineering strategy, automated regression pipelines.
- Understanding of mobile + web performance optimization.
- Engineering governance, coding standards, peer review processes.
- Tech debt management & refactoring approaches.
- Risk management and control frameworks (aligned to VP expectations).
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as project management discipline, risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong coding experience in at least one modern language.
- Java Spring Boot
- Hands-on Technology leader who has worked with multiple technologies of IBM Sterling Product suite, has good exposure working hands with GIT and CI/CD.
- Leads with deep hands-on technical credibility, unblocking teams on design and coding challenges.
- Shapes architecture direction while ensuring delivery excellence.
- Builds high‑performance engineering teams through coaching and clarity.
- Drives consistency, quality, and engineering discipline across products and journeys.
- Aligns engineering decisions with business outcomes, influencing senior stakeholders.
- Balances strategic vision with hands‑on leadership, ensuring teams remain innovative, empowered, and accountable.
- Ability to dive into complex system design, unblock engineers, review code, guide architecture choices, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
- Mentors’ engineers, builds high‑performance teams, drive technical excellence, and create a culture where individuals thrive and deliver consistently.
- Connect engineering decisions to business outcomes, shapes technical strategy, navigates tradeoffs, aligns with product/design/business teams, and influences senior stakeholders.
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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