Principal Engineer

18 hours ago


Pune India Barclays Full time

Job Description

Join us as a Principal Engineer. You will be driving the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native applications and platforms. You will be the go-to expert on AWS services, container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS), infrastructure automation, and DevOps best practices. You will be involved in shaping the cloud strategy, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring high performance, availability, and maintainability of our systems.

To be successful as Principal Engineer, you should have experience with:

- Hands on experience in software engineering and in cloud-native development and AWS.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, etc.
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Container and microservices design.
- Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and cloud cost optimization.
- Proficient in at least one programming language: Python, Go, Node.js, or Java.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

- AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer).
- Experience in multi-cloud environments or hybrid cloud setups.
- Background in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) is a plus.
- Experience in regulated environments (finance, healthcare) is a bonus.

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 for Pune location.

Purpose of the role

To set direction and design solutions for the banks most complex IT systems and / or platforms, inc. using industry leading approaches in response to the most challenging functional and non-functional requirements.

Accountabilities

- Set the banks strategic architecture direction for a specialist technology area(s), e.g. development of trading platforms.
- Provision of deep technical expertise in designing and evaluating complex technology architectures to stakeholders, including overseeing and coordinating solution architects, to encourage continuous learning across the architecture community.
- Management of innovative design, engineering initiatives and complex technology projects, through the collaboration with technical experts across the bank to resolve complex problems that support the banks technology strategy.
- Development and promotion of architectural standards, guidelines and governance policies to ensure consistency, quality and compliance to support the mitigation of various risks including breaches, access and regulatory violation.
- Identification of emerging technology trends, patterns and innovations that may impact the bank and implement potential solutions that align with the banks strategic objectives.
- Development and maintenance of advisor relationships with business partners, architects and engineering teams to drive successful design, adoption and engineering outcomes.
- Advocation of optimal solutions that address the banks technological needs through clear and compelling communication to support architectural decisions.
- Support of engineering and architecture community initiatives to mentor team members, streamline operations, share and grow knowledge.

Vice President Expectations

- To 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 managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will 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. They will 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.

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.


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