If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Join us as an Engineering Manager at Barclays where you will lead the design, development and delivery of modern, scalable and resilient enterprise platforms. You will drive engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle, leveraging cloud-native technologies, modern architecture patterns and emerging AI capabilities to deliver innovative digital solutions that create business value and enhance customer outcomes.
To be successful as an Engineering Manager, you should have experience with:
Deep hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and Microservices Architecture
Strong expertise in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise applications and distributed systems
Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex programmes in Agile environments
Strong knowledge of cloud-native development, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices and container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift)
Some other highly valued skills may include
Experience with Kafka, MQ, event streaming and asynchronous messaging platforms
Knowledge of GenAI technologies, LLM integrations, prompt engineering and AI-assisted development tools
Experience with AI/Agentic frameworks, vector databases and retrieval patterns
Experience in financial services, platform engineering, developer experience tooling and modern observability frameworks
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.
The role is based out of Pune
