Barclays Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Overview
Join Barclays as a Lead DevOps Engineer, where you’ll drive DevOps transformation across all squads, ensure engineering excellence, platform standardization, and compliance with modern development practices. This role is highly technical and hands-on, requiring deep expertise in AWS and automation.
Responsibilities
* Lead CI/CD transformation: guide teams through the three-phase pipeline adoption journey — build, deployment, and production release — ideally using GitLab. Promote trunk-based development, high test coverage, and quality gates across teams with varying levels of readiness.
* AWS expertise: hands-on experience with key AWS services including S3, EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Glue, and Step Functions.
* Application modernization: ensure evergreen pipelines with integrated vulnerability verification, estate management, and cyber checks as part of release pipelines. Manage areas where compliance is not achieved and ensure visibility of progress.
Valued Skills
* Hands-on experience with data tooling and ETL platforms such as Databricks, AWS Glue, Starburst, and Redshift.
* Strong background in test automation and reducing manual testing effort.
* Familiarity with a broad technology stack, including Python.
Context and Requirements
Some other highly valued skills include risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Glasgow.
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.
Accountabilities
* Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensure 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 alignment with business objectives.
* Collaborate with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
* Stay informed of industry technology trends and contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster technical excellence and growth.
* Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
* Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Leadership and People
* Barclays values and leadership expectations, including the Barclays Mindset and Leadership behaviours, apply to all colleagues.
* For leaders, responsibilities include setting strategy, resource planning, policy management, and enabling a high-performance culture while balancing budgets and timelines.
* For individual contributors, provide technical direction and mentorship, guiding multi-year assignments and cross-functional collaboration.
* Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impact and alignment; manage and mitigate risks; strengthen controls; and build trusted relationships with internal and external partners.
* Demonstrate problem-solving through sophisticated analysis and research-informed decision making.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Banking and Financial Services
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