Overview
Job Description Purpose of the role: To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Responsibilities
* Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
* Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
* Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
* Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
* Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
* Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
* Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Senior Engineer Expectations
* To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
* Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
* Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, with performance appraisal relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
* If the position has leadership responsibilities, 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, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation, and identify new directions for assignments/projects.
* Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work.
* Perform work closely related to other areas, understanding how areas coordinate and contribute to achieving the objectives of the organization sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
* Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information and influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
* All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Role Details
* Join Barclays as a Senior Engineer and help shape innovative solutions that enhance and transform the technology estate within Transaction Banking.
* You will work as part of a Scrum team within an Agile environment to deliver APIs and microservices.
* Additional collaboration with Platform teams and Lead Engineers will help define backlogs and identify the required solutions.
* To be successful as a Senior Engineer you should have: Comprehensive understanding of API and Microservice design patterns backed up by experience delivering and running the services you have built in production; A track record of building enterprise-scale applications using Java and Spring Boot frameworks; Building event-driven services using Kafka or similar technologies; Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and software quality metrics; Exposure to DDD and frameworks used to deliver domain-driven applications and hypermedia APIs; Understanding of Cloud technologies.
Location
The role can be based out of our Northampton or Knutsford Office.
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