Essential skills
- Strong problem‑solving capability – able to get to the root of issues and drive solutions, not just analyse or talk.
- Highly structured and organised – able to bring coherence to fragmented areas and manage work in a disciplined way.
- Execution-focused mindset – capable of turning ideas into tangible delivery and progress.
Desirable skills
- Experience operating across multiple domains (e.g. data, risk, technology, COO functions), rather than deep specialism in a single niche.
- Cost and efficiency awareness, especially identifying opportunities to reduce vendor dependency or automate manual activity.
- Ability to work flexibly across priorities, with interchangeable skill sets rather than being locked into one capability.
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high‑quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organisational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritisation to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time and budget.
- Mentor and support team members’ professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows and optimise team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high‑quality solutions.
Director Expectations
- To manage a business function, providing significant input to function‑wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
- They manage the direction of a large team or sub‑function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisational‑wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross‑functionally. They will train, guide and coach less‑experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function‑wide strategic initiatives.
- Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub‑function.
- Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up‑to‑date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex / sensitive situations.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions / business divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
Leadership Behaviours
All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
Barclays Values and Mindset
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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