Engineering Manager VP

About the role

Barclays is looking for an Engineering Manager VP in Pune, India, to lead the evolution of its infrastructure and deployment pipelines and to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure for digital solutions. The role leads multiple full-stack engineering teams delivering customer-facing and core banking capabilities, and covers engineering strategy, delivery execution, engineering excellence, people leadership, architecture governance and AI-enabled productivity improvements across the software development lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Lead multiple full-stack engineering teams and manage Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, QA Engineers and Scrum Masters
• Ensure delivery against business outcomes, OKRs and strategic priorities, and govern engineering metrics such as velocity, predictability, quality, deployment frequency and operational stability
• Manage delivery risks, dependencies, technical debt, incidents and production support
• Provide technical leadership across front-end, back-end, API, integration and cloud technologies, and drive architecture reviews
• Promote reusable platforms, frameworks and engineering standards, and guide teams on modern engineering practices and technology adoption
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, including AI-assisted code generation, testing, impact analysis, documentation and knowledge management
• Establish and govern standards across design, development, testing, DevOps, security and reliability engineering, and promote platform stability, observability and operational excellence
• Reduce technical debt, improve developer experience and foster talent development, succession planning, coaching and mentoring
• Collaborate with business partners, product managers and designers to turn business requirements into technical solutions

Required profile

• Experience with end-to-end delivery across multiple feature teams and a strong track record of large-scale digital transformation programmes
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams and managers
• Ability to set strategy, plan resources and budgets, and advise senior management on functional and cross-functional issues
• Leadership behaviours: listen authentically, energise and inspire, align across the enterprise and develop others
• Legal right to work in India; the role may be subject to enhanced governance and regulatory compliance obligations

Required skills

• Java, Spring Boot and microservices architecture
• Angular, React and modern front-end frameworks
• API-led and event-driven architecture
• Cloud platforms (AWS)
• DevOps, CI/CD, SRE and observability

What we offer

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Life assurance and private medical care
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working with anchor days at the Pune campus