Service Risk Assessment Engineering Lead

Step into the role of Service Risk Assessment Engineering Lead at Barclays, where you will support and spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.  

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Angular (v18+) & TypeScript with expertise in building scalable, responsive enterprise applications.

• Java / Spring Boot for microservices, REST APIs, and backend architecture.

• Python for automation, API development, data processing, and AI/ML integration.

• System Design & Architecture including distributed systems, event-driven design, and scalability patterns.

• API Engineering using REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication (OAuth2/JWT), and integration patterns.

• Database Expertise across SQL (PostgreSQL/MS SQL) and NoSQL solutions.

• Data Engineering Exposure including ETL pipelines and analytics integrations.

• DevOps & CI/CD using Git, GitLab/Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift.

• Automated Testing including unit, integration, API, and UI test automation.

• Agile Delivery Leadership with experience leading Scrum teams and managing technical roadmaps.

• Stakeholder & Team Leadership including mentoring engineers, code reviews, technical governance, and translating business requirements into solutions

Desirable skills sets:

• Cloud Platforms (AWS) and cloud-native application development.

• AI/GenAI Integration using LLMs, RAG, LangChain, prompt engineering, and AI services.

• Micro Frontend Architecture and enterprise UI design patterns.

• Event Streaming Technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

• Observability & SRE Practices including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.

• Security Engineering with knowledge of OWASP, secure coding, and IAM.

• Performance Engineering for frontend, APIs, and database optimization.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ansible.

• Financial Services / Regulated Environment Experience with risk, compliance, governance, and audit requirements

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.

This role can be based in Pune.

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.