Java Tech Lead-VP

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we help shape it. As a Java Tech Lead-VP, you will play a pivotal role in driving reliable, scalable, and secure technology solutions aligned with business priorities. This role requires owning the end‑to‑end technology delivery for FISH, translating functional and business needs into robust system designs, and ensuring disciplined execution with quality, and operational stability. Success depends on building and mentoring high‑performing engineering teams, establishing clear engineering standards, and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. The VP Tech Lead is expected to proactively manage technical risk, modernize platforms, improve resiliency and performance, and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory requirements. Equally important is the ability to partner effectively with product, business, and operations leaders, communicate complex technical concepts with clarity, and make data‑driven decisions that balance speed, cost, and long‑term sustainability. A successful VP Tech Lead consistently acts as a technology steward, role‑models strong engineering leadership behaviors, and drives measurable improvements in system reliability, delivery predictability, and business outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Managing complex technology programs with strong delivery discipline, risk management, and dependency handling.
• Establishing engineering best practices for code quality, performance, security, reliability, and observability.
• Platform modernization, legacy transformation, and technical debt reduction at enterprise scale.
• DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational excellence practices to improve time‑to‑market.
• Modern technology stacks, including microservices, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
• Proven experience in Java (8+) with strong hands-on expertise including multithreading, advanced collections, concurrency, and performance-oriented programming.
• Spring Framework & Spring Boot - building robust backend services, REST APIs, and integration components.
• Hibernate/JPA - ORM, query tuning, caching, and high-volume data access patterns.
• SQL & PL/SQL proficiency - ability to develop stored procedures, packages, triggers, complex queries, and performance optimization.
• Message based integration using MQ - including producers/consumers, DLQ handling, and reliable message delivery patterns.
• Docker/containerization exposure - especially useful to scale and Spring Boot container builds.
• Event streaming technologies - (Kafka or similar) real time data processing.
• CI/CD tooling - Jenkins & Maven for building pipelines, release automation, and DevOps alignment.
• Unix/Linux expertise -including shell scripting, environment debugging, file handling, permissions.
• Unit testing & build/release engineering - ensuring quality, automation, and regression safe change deployment.
• Hands on design & build of distributed systems - scalability improvements, optimization of existing services, and performance tuning.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Angular for basic UI troubleshooting or collaboration on full stack workflows.
• Chef cookbook scripting - automation, configuration management, and DevOps workflows.
• Observability tooling - ELK for reliability engineering and proactive monitoring.
• Strong communication & leadership to influence engineers and collaborate across teams.

You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills, Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.

The location of the role is Pune, IN

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• 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.