Software Engineer, AVP

About the Role

Join Barclays as a Customer Journey - Software Engineer - AVP. This role is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient applications, with primary accountability for customer journey solutions. It combines hands-on engineering, technical oversight, and project delivery ownership on key web technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Spearhead the evolution of the digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
• Build high-performing teams and drive engineering excellence through modern architecture, high-quality engineering, automation, security, CI/CD, and operational best practices.
• Lead, develop, and contribute to a high-performing mobile engineering team to deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• Design, build, test, and operate production services.
• Design web solutions catering to accessibility and responsive requirements.
• Component development using Node-based build tooling.
• Support end-to-end testing.
• Use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment.
• Build production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities.
• Work with APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models.
• Work with authentication, authorization, and identity management.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing.
• Define and implement engineering standards, patterns, and development best practices.
• Drive adoption of modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls, and release automation.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owner, Solution Architect, Security, Platform, and QA teams to deliver integrated digital solutions.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Guide architectural discussions and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to engineering standards.
• Provide technical leadership across various technologies.
• Mentor and coach teams on career development through feedback, technical assistance, performance management, and development planning.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and team growth initiatives.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence across the mobile landscape.
• Promote knowledge sharing through code reviews, technical discussions, pairing sessions, and documentation.
• Balance technical excellence with delivery commitments and business outcomes.
• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized 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.
• 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 organization’s technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• 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.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• 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.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, including business-aligned support areas, to keep up-to-speed with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information (internal and external) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• REACT
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• HTML
• CSS
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Node-based build tooling
• AI engineering tools
• APIs
• RESTful services
• Gitlab
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Datadog
• Constrainers
• Helm
• PING ID
• Java
• Google Cloud

Qualifications

• Experience with technologies such as REACT, JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML, CSS, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities.
• Experience working with APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and identity management.
• DevOps Skillsets: Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible, Datadog, constrainers, and Helm.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, dependency management, and maintainable code design.
• Technical leadership across various technologies like PING ID, Java, JavaScript, API, Docker, Google Cloud and secure code engineering.
• Understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization sub-function objectives.
• Ability to engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Ability to communicate complex information.
• Ability to influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrated understanding of risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology.