Join Barclays as a Workload Automation Engineer, playing a critical role in supporting and enhancing an infrastructure that underpins the bank’s batch processing and automation capabilities. In this role, you will help manage and evolve a platform executing over 3 million jobs daily, ensuring stability, resilience, and compliance for business-critical workflows used across Markets, RFT, and wider global technology teams. You will contribute to key initiatives such as platform upgrades, agent migrations, improved observability through AAI, and the development of automation solutions to reduce manual effort.
Please note that the role may include participation in an on‑call rota (approximately once every four weeks) as the platform moves into production, as well as occasional out‑of‑hours or weekend work aligned to major implementation activities.
Required Skills
- Familiarity with scheduling tools.
- Experience with source control systems such as GitLab.
- Strong communication skills.
Highly Valued Skills
- Administrative experience with scheduling tools, preferably AutoSys.
- Solid understanding of enterprise scheduler logic and best practices.
- Experience with automation tools such as Chef or Ansible.
- Experience with secrets management tools such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault.
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 will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).
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 optimised 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, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organisation’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.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function, setting objectives, coaching employees, and overseeing performance.
- Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
- For an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify new directions for projects involving cross‑functional methodologies.
- Consult on complex issues, advising People Leaders on escalated matters.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures supporting the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information, including sensitive or difficult-to-communicate content.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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