Engineering Excellence Lead

Overview

Join Barclays as an Engineering Excellence Lead within the Development Platform organization. The role focuses on educating and upskilling developers, fostering a developer community, championing Development Platform products, and helping developers adopt modern engineering practices, learn new tools, and improve their craft.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and improve software using various engineering methodologies.
• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and contribute to technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Educate and upskill developers and foster a thriving developer community.
• Champion Development Platform products.
• Build technical demos, hands-on workshops, prototypes, and code samples to support education efforts.
• Learn quickly, validate through POCs, and collaborate effectively.
• 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.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought by comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Use in-depth analysis and interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders using influencing and negotiating skills.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements; and escalate breaches of policies and procedures.
• For an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within your discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi-year assignments, and guide team members through structured assignments.
• Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.

What you'll need

• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in modern development practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language, such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills, with comfort addressing audiences of all sizes.
• Good technical writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
• Foundational understanding of AI concepts and experience with agentic applications.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered development environments and agentic IDEs.
• Ability to learn quickly, validate through POCs, and collaborate effectively.

Nice to have

• Experience in developer education, developer enablement, or technical advocacy.
• Background in hosting technical workshops, hackathons, or meetups.
• Familiarity with open-source software and community-driven development.
• Experience implementing documentation-as-code practices and workflows.

Details

• Location: Pune, Gera Commerzone SEZ.
• This role is based in the Pune office.
• Applicants may be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.