VP - Engineering Lead

At Barclays, we don't just adapt to the future we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a VP - Engineering Lead within Markets Sales Technology, where you'll play a key role in building and evolving client-facing and sales enablement platforms that support the firm's global Markets business. This role is accountable for delivering scalable, resilient, and high-quality software solutions that improve client engagement, enhance sales productivity, and enable data-driven decision making. Working closely with Product Owners, Architecture, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders, you will contribute to the strategic evolution of Sales Technology platforms while championing modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining business-critical applications, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring solutions meet Barclays' standards for security, resilience, performance, and operational stability. To be successful as a VP Developer Engineer, you should have experience with: Building and supporting enterprise-scale applications using modern software engineering practices and design patterns. Developing microservices, APIs, and event-driven solutions within complex distributed environments. Delivering solutions using Agile methodologies and contributing throughout the software development lifecycle. Designing and implementing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS and associated platform services. Developing CI/CD pipelines and automating build, testing, deployment, and operational processes. Applying software engineering best practices including code quality controls, automated testing, observability, and technical debt management. Integrating applications with enterprise data platforms and downstream business systems. Collaborating with Product Owners and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Some other highly valued skills may include: Experience supporting Sales, CRM, Client Analytics, Research, or Commercial Banking technology platforms. Strong knowledge of Java, Python, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern software development frameworks. Experience with cloud engineering, DevOps, containerisation, and Infrastructure as Code practices. Knowledge of AI-assisted software development, GenAI tooling, or intelligent automation capabilities. Understanding of software performance engineering, platform resilience, and operational support models. Experience working within Financial Services or other regulated environments. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams. 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 location of the role is Pune, IN. Purpose of the role To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. Accountabilities Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Banks resiliency expectations.Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes. 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 .