Overview
Join to apply for the Engineering Lead role at hackajob in collaboration with Barclays. This role leads a team of 15 engineers steering a large-scale internal platform supporting over 1,000 users across Barclays UK. The platform delivers shared tooling and container-based services to enhance engineering productivity. The role combines technical knowledge with strategic direction and is suited to those who bring clarity, alignment, and long-term focus to support platform evolution, reliability, and security.
The ideal candidate is passionate about enabling teams, driving innovation, and building resilient systems. This role evaluates candidates on key skills related to risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology expertise, in addition to job-specific technical skills. This role is based in Knutsford.
Responsibilities
* Guide a team of engineers to deliver and evolve a large-scale internal platform used by developers, testers, release managers, RTB L2 engineers, and SREs.
* Provide technical leadership, clear direction, and long-term planning for platform reliability, security, and scalability.
* Enable teams through effective mentoring, collaboration, and enabling tooling.
* Oversee shared tooling and container-based services to improve engineering productivity.
Qualifications
* Experience supporting engineering teams and mentoring developers.
* Proficiency in CI/CD automation using GitLab and Jenkins.
* Experience with Kubernetes in cloud-native environments.
* Background in building shared developer platforms and tooling.
* Familiarity with system reliability practices including monitoring and alerting.
* Strategic mindset aligned with long-term engineering outcomes.
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Software Development
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