Barclays Careers – Lead Engineer

About the job

Lead Engineer

As a Barclays Lead Engineer, you will be working work with customer facing web site components, templates, tools and features for sites and applications. This role is responsible for ensuring security, resilience and controls across the web and app store estate along with usage of DevOps tooling and practices, striving for continuous delivery capabilities.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Leading a team of AEM Solution designers and senior engineers with dotted line reporting to lead developers in the AEM delivery team
• Working with Digital Architects and Solution Designers across Barclays Mobile banking, secure desktop and colleague applications
• Supporting the AEM Quality Assurance lead in defining and executing QA strategy and tooling through the SDLC
• Ensuring security and resilience by design in all solutions
• Building close partnerships with the Chief Security Office teams to collaborate on cyber security initiatives and issues
• Collaborating with peer lead engineers to define strategies for the next generation of web and mobile solutions

What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience working in engineering roles designing and building solutions on the Adobe Experience Platform
• Proven ability to lead, improve and inspire engineering teams
• Technology design experience either at application or infrastructure level that enables you to resolve complex business issues with a simple and cost effective technology based solution
• Solid knowledge of the full stack Development Tech especially with frontend development frameworks

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Experience working with the cloud Architectures
• Experience of working with service management teams or an understanding of ITIL principles
• Application/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect training and certification.
• Exposure to API design strategies both for internal and external customer usage

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.