Engineering Lead

Overview

Lead engineering teams at Barclays to deliver high-quality software solutions and drive technical excellence. The role focuses on infrastructure, deployment pipelines, automation, security, resilience, and cross-team engineering alignment.

What you'll do

• Lead teams across microservices architecture, performance engineering, code quality, secure coding, and modernization.
• Drive automation-first delivery through CI/CD, GitLab migration, automated tooling, contract testing, and shift-left practices.
• Embed DevOps, observability, deployment automation, and SRE-style engineering practices.
• Oversee containerisation, cloud and on-premises infrastructure alignment, and architectural compliance.
• Coordinate engineering alignment, dependencies, and delivery flow across Agile Release Trains and cross-domain teams.
• Represent engineering in PI planning, roadmap discussions, architecture ceremonies, and readiness governance.
• Mentor team members and improve engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.

What you'll need

• Experience leading engineering teams across distributed platforms.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, GitLab pipelines, observability, and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of secure coding and integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with platform engineering, containerisation, and cloud or on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience driving Agile engineering practices, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration, risk management, and strategic thinking skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML-driven developer productivity and GitLab Duo.
• Experience with architecture-as-code, documentation automation, and engineering governance.
• Experience coordinating internal and external vendor engineering teams.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.