Director

Director – Engineering Lead

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Location

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

About the Role

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Overall purpose of role

The Principal Engineering role within CLM for PBWM is a deep hands-on expert across all aspects of delivering a world class banking experience for our PBWM customers. The role is pivotal within the leadership of engineering excellence across many teams and technology stacks and will have broad impact on BUK business areas through various engagements and deliverables. Working with the Head of CLM Technology, CIO and other Managing Directors for platform and feature engineering, the role will drive the technical improvements in practices, solutions, tooling and environments. In addition, they will develop products, solutions, frameworks, designs and standards, and engage heavily in ensuring continuous improvement of our digital estate. Principal Engineers are also expected to develop and lead a community with their peers, engage in education across our general engineering population, and from time to time take active leadership across engineering teams where improvement is needed.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead specific engineering outcomes and be accountable for building upon the CLM platform foundations to meet business demand

• Own and deliver business outcomes as defined in partnership with product owners. Accountable for backlog quality and achieving definition of ready and done for prioritised work items

• Perform deep, CIO level engagement to identify and curate innovation and improvement opportunities for complex, high scale system deliveries

• Hire and Develop others: Drive organisational shape to achieve Employee Value Proposition outcomes

• Be a figure head for organisational excellence, execution discipline and effectively carrying the brand of Digital Delivery as an ambassador

• Be an active driver of our community and culture, helping develop experts and talent across the Barclays UK.

• Active engagement in change activity and post incident reviews – ensuring rigour and excellence is applied to service improvement

• Drive CLM innovation and roadmaps to modernise and future proof the technology estates, and uplift resiliency, stability, security, and simplification

• Driving various India Innovation and Transformation Agenda (i.e., Engineering Excellence, Capacity Creation).

Be an active member of and fully contribute to the PBWM CIO Leadership Team agenda both Globally and Locally

Purpose of the role To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• 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.

• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.

• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.

• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..

• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.

• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.

• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.

• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.

• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.

• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.

• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.

• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.

• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.

• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.

• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.

• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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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Ideal Candidate

Someone who has progressed from hands-on IC to engineering leadership at a major financial services or tech company, comfortable with both deep technical architecture decisions and people development at scale.

Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)

₹35 L – ₹55 L per year

Likely Interview Questions

1.Walk us through a time you modernized a legacy platform while maintaining business continuity—what technical decisions did you own vs. escalate, and how did you sequence the work?
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