Senior developer /Tech lead

Join us as a “Senior developer /Tech lead" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a “Senior developer /Tech lead", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Strong hands‑on experience as a Scrum Master in large‑scale Agile environments.

• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Lean principles.

• Experience working within regulated or complex enterprise environments.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to operate effectively across technology, business, and change functions.

• Demonstrates Barclays LEAD behaviors: servant leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Drives team ownership and accountability for outcomes.

• Coaches rather than direct; enables rather than controls.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) ensuring time‑boxed, outcome‑driven execution.

• Partner with Product Owners to support backlog refinement, sprint readiness, and delivery predictability.

• Ensure Agile practices are consistently applied and adapted to the team context.

• Flow Optimization & Impediment Management - Identify, track, and remove delivery impediments impacting team flow and predictability.

• Use delivery metrics (velocity, flow, predictability, quality indicators) to enable data‑driven improvement.

• Shield the squad from unplanned work and external disruption.

• Coaching & Team Performance - Coach teams on Agile mindset, behaviors, and continuous improvement.

• Foster a psychologically safe environment that promotes accountability, transparency, and learning.

• Enable high‑performing team attributes aligned with Barclays Ways of Working.

• Stakeholder & Dependency Management -Act as the primary interface between the squad and internal/external stakeholders.

• Manage cross‑team dependencies, risks, and escalations proactively.

• Represent the squad in governance forums, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

This role will be based out of 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.