Barclays is looking for an Engineering Lead to manage and guide engineering teams in Pune. You will provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration to deliver high-quality software solutions aligned with business goals.

What You'll Do

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.
Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements.
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.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives.
Spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence.
Harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

What We're Looking For

Experience as an Engineering Lead in Liquidity driving engineering maturity across distributed platforms.
Experience leading teams in microservices architecture, performance engineering, code quality, secure coding, and engineering modernization.
Experience championing automation-first delivery—CI/CD, GitLab migration, automated DML/tooling, contract testing, and shift-left practices.
Experience embedding DevOps practices (GitLab pipelines, observability, deployment automation, SRE-style engineering).
Experience driving secure coding, integrating security into SDLC from the start, and partnering with security consultancy teams via LCP processes.
Experience with platform engineering (containerisation, cloud/on‑prem infra alignment, architectural compliance).
Experience operating as an Agile change agent across multiple ARTs and cross‑domain teams.
Experience driving engineering alignment, dependency management and flow across teams.
Experience representing engineering in PI Planning, roadmap discussions, architectural ceremonies, and readiness governance.
Experience coaching teams on Agile engineering practices, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.

Nice to Have

Experience promoting adoption of GitLab Duo, agentic development workflows, ML‑driven code insights, automated reviews, and AI‑supported diagnostic analysis.
Experience leveraging AI/ML to improve architecture insights, developer productivity, and operational analytics.
Experience embedding architectural assets within pipelines, data‑quality checks, compliance automation.
Experience ensuring teams maintain design artefacts, align with enterprise architecture, and use automated governance within CI/CD.
Experience orchestrating engineering delivery with internal teams (Liquidity, Payments, RFT, Data) and external vendor teams.
Experience ensuring engineering visibility, technical feasibility input, cross-team dependency resolution, and consistent product/platform alignment.