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Barclays
Full time
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10/16/2026
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Pune, India

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of distributed, event-driven, and data-intensive systems into production.
Drive cloud-native platform engineering initiatives, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and secure-by-design architecture.
Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to engineering teams.
Influence architecture, security, product, and delivery stakeholders to achieve pragmatic technology outcomes.
Navigate governance frameworks and regulatory requirements in a complex enterprise environment.
Build reusable self-service platform capabilities, onboarding models, and integration frameworks.
Oversee observability, alerting, incident handling, resilience, recovery, and continuous improvement for business-critical platforms.
Ensure solutions meet Barclays standards for security, data privacy, resilience, and operational risk.

Requirements

Proven software engineering experience designing and delivering distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems in production.
Strong expertise in cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, scalable platform patterns, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and secure-by-design architecture.
Experience with production-grade engineering practices, platform resilience, recovery strategies, and operational excellence.
Demonstrated technical leadership in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
Ability to influence stakeholders, navigate governance frameworks, and align business objectives with technology execution.
Experience guiding and mentoring engineering teams through complex technical challenges.
Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum, secure coding, code quality, observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve complex production issues.
Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and container runtime management.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deployment strategies, scaling, troubleshooting, and Helm chart management.
Expertise with CloudFormation and Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
Exposure to Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, Schema Registry, event schemas, connectors, or real-time data pipelines.
Experience creating reusable self-service platform capabilities, onboarding models, or integration frameworks.
Experience with AWS Cloud Services and cloud-native application development.
Relevant skills include risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.

Benefits

The role is based in Pune.
The position offers technical leadership opportunities across enterprise platform engineering and strategic technology initiatives.

Barclays

Barclays is a UK‑based universal bank that provides retail and commercial banking, credit cards (Barclaycard), wealth management, and investment banking to consumers, businesses, and institutions. Publicly listed in London and New York, it generates revenue from net interest income, fees, and mar...

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