Resilience Recovery Engineer, Software

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Resilience Recovery Engineer - Software to join the Resilience Operations team, working alongside CTO Platform Engineering. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain cyber resilience and recovery tooling that enables teams across Barclays to autonomously manage protection and recovery operations. You'll work on a distributed microservices platform that orchestrates complex workflows across multi-infrastructure environments, integrates with enterprise governance systems, and handles real-time event streaming and state management. You will partner with infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver solutions that reduce recovery times, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the bank's overall resilience posture. As a senior engineer, you'll own key architectural decisions, mentor team members, and contribute to evolving our platform's scalability, reliability, and security. This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the Role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that 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.
• Collaboration with peers, 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 to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• 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.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• 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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• React or Angular front-end development (responsive, accessible UIs).
• Go backend development, including REST API design and service integration.
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy automation).
• Containerised applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift (deploy, run, troubleshoot).

Qualifications

• TypeScript and modern front-end tooling and patterns.
• API security and integration: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, mTLS; data stores and messaging.
• Helm and Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and logging.
• Being a thought leader and innovator with experience in cloud and containerisation technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering transformation at scale, moving legacy applications to cloud native micro-services architecture.
• Risk and controls.
• Communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Job-specific technical skills.
• Adherence to Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship).
• Demonstration of the Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).