Senior Engineer

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Join us as a Senior Engineer at Barclays UK, where you will develop, implement, and maintain solutions that safeguard the bank’s systems and sensitive information while supporting critical Run the Bank activities across the Business Works and Apigee Edge platforms. In this AVP-level role within the API Platform Team, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting technical services that enable key customer journeys and business operations, while also participating in an out-of-hours on-call rota for one week each month.

To be successful as a Senior Engineer at Barclays UK, you should have experience with:

• TIBCO Business Works Expertise (BW 5/6)
• Strong hands‑on experience designing, building, and supporting integrations using TIBCO Business Works, or potentially an alternative product (e.g. Mulesoft)
• Cloud & Container Platforms (AWS + Kubernetes)
• Solid experience deploying and running applications on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, networking, IAM, monitoring).
• Practical knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and Kubernetes deployments, including CI/CD integration.
• Dev Ops & Agile Delivery (SAFe)
• Demonstrated experience working in a true Dev Ops model: build, deploy, support, and operate services end-to-end.

• Integration & Messaging Technologies
• Experience with messaging systems (e.g., EMS, Kafka, MQ).7
• Observability & Production Support
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Data Dog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Cloud Watch).
• Strong incident management, root cause analysis, and production support practices.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as 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 Edinburgh.

To develop, implement and maintain solutions that support the safeguarding of the banks systems and sensitive information.

• Provision of subject matter expertise on security systems and engineering patterns.
• Development and implementation of protocols, algorithms, and software applications to protect sensitive data and systems.
• Management and protection of secrets, ensuring that they are securely generated, stored, and used.
• Execution of audits to monitor, identify and assess vulnerabilities in the banks infrastructure/software and support the response to potential security breaches.
• Identification of advancements in to support the innovation and adoption of new cryptographic technologies and techniques.
• Collaboration across the bank, including developers and security teams, to ensure that cryptographic solutions align with business objectives, security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Development/ Implementation and maintenance of Identity and Access Management solutions and systems.

• 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, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or…