Engineering Lead

Join Barclays as an Engineering Lead and take ownership of guiding and managing engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership, mentorship, and support while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure technical decisions align with business goals and drive technical excellence across the board. You’ll be part of one of three newly established UK-based feature teams, supporting critical Business Banking initiatives for 2025 and beyond.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Strong background as a software engineer, with the ability to contribute to design and implementation decisions that impact your team.
• Deep knowledge of industry best practices in reliability, observability, and operational excellence, with a focus on simplifying and streamlining processes.
• Solid understanding of the products you support and the value they deliver to customers.
• Leadership style that fosters ownership and accountability, promotes efficient decision-making, and actively removes blockers to keep the team moving forward.
• A results-driven approach to team goals, with the ability to organise work effectively and ensure clear milestones are in place.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Proven experience building high-availability systems.
• Previous experience deploying and monitoring production loads in AWS. 
• Proficiency in Java, particularly with Spring Boot.
• Experience with React.
• Familiarity with source control tools such as Git.
• Previous experience in the financial services industry.

You may be assessed on the 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 successful candidate can either be based in Luke Street, London or Radbroke Hall, Knutsford.