VP CATS Pune Lead

About the role

Barclays is hiring a VP CATS Pune Lead for its technology team in Pune, India, within the Markets pre-trade area. The role is permanent and focuses on designing, developing and improving software that delivers business, platform and technology capabilities to customers and colleagues. The position is based in Pune, the largest campus outside Barclays' London headquarters.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks and tools, keeping code scalable, maintainable and performance-optimized.
• Work with product managers, designers and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Take part in peer code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of technology trends and contribute to the organization's technology communities.
• Follow secure coding practices and implement unit testing to ensure reliable, readable code.
• As a Vice President, set strategy, plan resources, budgets and policies, advise stakeholders and senior management, and manage risk and controls.

Required profile

• Demonstrated expertise in core Java concepts including multi-threading, garbage collection, data structures and object-oriented programming.
• Experience developing low-latency, high-throughput applications with optimized performance.
• Ability to quickly understand legacy codebases and to architect modernized solutions using design patterns and best practices.
• Leadership expectations: either leading a team with the LEAD behaviours (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop) or acting as a subject-matter expert guiding technical direction.

Required skills

• Spring Boot development and dependency injection.
• JMS and enterprise messaging platforms such as Solace and Kafka.
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and build tools (Gradle, Maven).
• Unix command line and shell scripting, and Python APIs and scripting.

What we offer

• Competitive holiday allowance.
• Life assurance and private medical care.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible working arrangements and a hybrid working model with fixed anchor days.