Engineering Director

7 days ago

Knutsford, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Barclays Bank UK PLC Full time
Job Title: Director Engineering Lead

About the Role:

We are seeking an exceptional Director Engineering Lead to join our team at Barclays Bank UK PLC. As a key member of our engineering leadership team, you will be responsible for leading and managing engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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:

• 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/procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed, and relevant processes are 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:

As a Senior Leader, you will be 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:

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.

Key Accountabilities:

• Drive a Product development life cycle for the API channel team, delivering APIs as Business Products enabling key partner brands.
• Contribute to BUK Digital strategy and supporting the delivery of digital platforms.
• Enable agile delivery through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with test automation at all levels.
• Drive platform innovation and roadmaps, modernising the current API products to use a consistent set of components, tools, technologies, and frameworks to improve resiliency, stability, security, and simplification.
• Ensure quality gates are maintained across the agile lifecycle and that strict controls are met for governance/compliance to reduce levels of tech debt.
• Champion our workforce strategy as we look to continue to recruit world-class engineering capability across our strategic campus locations (across the UK and India).

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