Job Description
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Accountabilities
* Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
* Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration aligned with business objectives.
* Participate in code reviews, promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
* Stay informed of industry trends and innovations; contribute to technology communities to foster technical excellence.
* Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect data.
* Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure code quality and reliability.
Vice President Expectations
* Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Manage resources, budgets, and policies; deliver continuous improvements.
* If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, counsel employees, and lead specialists to influence operations, balancing goals and budgets.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen, Energize, Align, Develop.
* If an individual contributor, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead assignments, and mentor others.
* Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts.
* Manage risks and strengthen controls.
* Understand organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
* Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
* Develop solutions through analytical thinking and research.
* Build trusting relationships with stakeholders to achieve objectives.
All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive.
Join us as a Cloud Observability Engineer at Barclays, leading enterprise observability strategies across multi-cloud environments. This senior role involves technical leadership, team management, operational excellence, resilient solution architecture, and mentoring.
To succeed, you should have experience with:
* Leading and scaling technical teams in governance environments
* AWS/Azure cloud platforms and observability tools (Elastic, Grafana, Splunk, DataDog, etc.)
* SRE/DevOps methodologies with Python for automation and infrastructure-as-code
Valued additional skills include:
* AWS or Azure certifications
* Implementing AI-driven observability and AIOps solutions
* Background in large-scale distributed systems and microservices
This role is based in Northampton.
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