Engineering Manager

Job Description

Purpose of the role

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.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.

Step into the role of Engineering Manager at Barclays, we are more than a Bank, we are force of progress. As an Engineering Manager you will 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.

To be successful as an Engineering Manager, you must have experience with:

• Knowledge of ‘Micro-Service’ driven approach to design, build, test and deployment of a major system.

• Experience in Software development consisting of the languages and technologies like Spring, Springboot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, React and Node.js

• Recognising, selecting and applying appropriate Design patterns, frameworks according to business benefit, maintainability and delivery priorities and constrains.

• Writes and review code in adherence to the well-defined acceptance criteria and definition of done.

• Applies product development & engineering best practices.

• Participate in design reviews and provides feedback to the team.

• Creates and Maintains architecture, framework, technical documentation.

• Good knowledge about Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to improve the test coverage and automation of unit and integration test along with the extended testing teams.

• Support best practices and proactively takes measures to empower support teams to resolve issues with agility.

• Clear & concise verbal and written communication skills

• Analytical with a structured approach 

• Experience of Cloud technologies.

• Understand DevOps principles and Tools

 Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued: 

• Knowledge of integrating testing into the DevOps pipeline for automated build and deployment using tools like Jenkins, Travis CI and similar tools.

• Support, monitoring and troubleshooting of both production and non-production environments

• Source code repository management and tools like Git, GitHub, Bitbucket and Gitlab.

• Owns and runs with release tasks and collaborates with Release/BA/QA teams to make sure production releases are performed with high levels accuracy.

• Assist L2 Support teams to resolve user queries and production issues

• Participates in team retrospective / product demo(s) and provides valuable insights and improvements for future development.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Pune office.