Software Engineer

About the Role

Join Barclays as a Migration Engineer (BCP – Red Hat OpenShift). This role is based in Chennai. The purpose is to design, develop, and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning, building, and executing application and platform migrations to OpenShift with a strong focus on business continuity, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Bridging app teams, platform/SRE, network, security, and DR/BCP stakeholders to ensure migrated workloads meet RTO/RPO, resiliency, compliance, and performance targets.
• Development and delivery of 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.
• Participating in code reviews and promoting a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
• Performing prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Leading and supervising a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements, and coordinating team resources.
• Developing technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Taking responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalating breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
• Taking responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advising and influencing decision making within own area of expertise.
• Taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work owned or contributed to.
• Delivering work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation, and codes of conduct.
• Maintaining and continually building an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the function, alongside knowledge of the organization's products, services, and processes within the function.
• Demonstrating understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function.
• Making evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolving problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and guidance by precedents.
• Guiding and persuading team members and communicating complex/sensitive information.
• Acting as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience configuring, using, or maintaining Kubernetes (OpenShift, EKS, or AKS).
• Experience in developing and coding software using Python or Golang.
• Experience with Docker, Containers, and Cloud-Native utilities and software.

Qualifications

• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise.
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.
• Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills.