Job Description Purpose
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 organizational objectives. Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization 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. Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows and optimize team productivity. Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. Enforce 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 organisation‑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. Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately. Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence. Focus on the external environment, regulators or advocacy groups to 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. 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. 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.
Role Overview
As Global Lead Engineer for the Equities Risk Platform, this role owns the end‑to‑end technical direction, engineering quality and operational resilience of Atlas Risk, a foundational platform for the Equities business. The role uniquely combines hands‑on technical leadership, people management and platform‑level accountability, ensuring that strategic re‑engineering, migration of remaining businesses and decommissioning of legacy applications are delivered with production‑grade quality, control and scalability.
Key Accountabilities
- Own the technical strategy and engineering roadmap for the Equities Risk Platform.
- Act as global technical authority, driving architectural decisions, re‑engineering priorities and technical risk management.
- Lead and develop a global engineering team, setting clear expectations around delivery, quality and ownership.
- Define, track and improve code‑quality, deployment‑quality, SLO and vulnerability metrics across the full platform stack.
- Ensure safe, controlled delivery to production and long‑term platform sustainability.
Key Requirements
- Proven experience leading large‑scale, mission‑critical trading or risk platforms in a front‑office or near‑front‑office environment.
- Strong software engineering background (distributed systems, low‑latency / high‑throughput platforms, Java or equivalent enterprise stack).
- Demonstrated ability to set and enforce engineering quality standards, including CI/CD, automated testing, SLOs and production controls.
- Experience leading and mentoring senior engineers, including line management, technical coaching and succession planning.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business strategy into executable technical roadmaps.
Values
Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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