Forward Deployment Engineer

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, participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute 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

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well‑developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes.
• For people leaders: demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For an individual contributor: lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments, identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, and consult on complex issues providing advice to people leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Forward Deployment Engineer – Overview

Embark on a transformative journey as a Forward Deployment Engineer. The vision is to design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Qualifications and Technical Skills

• Good technical experience in AI/ML with experience developing and deploying solutions using LLMs, RAG architectures, and modern AI frameworks and protocols (Strands, FastMCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, A2A, MCP).
• Ability to translate multi‑layered business problems into technical solutions with experience working directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver production systems.
• Experience in delivering in financial environments including investment banking, risk, compliance or relevant domains with understanding of regulatory considerations and responsible AI practices.
• Solid software engineering foundation with proficiency in Python, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), APIs and full‑stack development to rapidly prototype and productionise AI applications.
• Experience with MLOps practices including model deployment, monitoring, evaluation and CI/CD pipelines with delivery of AI solutions from concept to production.
• Excellent communication and consulting skills with ability to build trust, manage stakeholder expectations and drive AI capabilities across diverse business units.
• Experience with vector databases, prompt engineering, fine‑tuning and understanding of when to apply different AI approaches to business problems.
• Knowledge of data engineering, analytics and visualisation tools to support end‑to‑end solution delivery including data pipelines and user interfaces.
• Experience with React/JS frameworks.

Location

The location of your role is Glasgow/Knutsford.

Culture and Values

Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard‑working, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they help keep us the #1 Top Workplace in the area. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

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