Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer – Barclays UK

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, and will participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota one week each month.

Location:

Edinburgh.

• 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 secure generation, storage, and use.
• Execution of audits to monitor, identify, and assess vulnerabilities in the bank’s infrastructure/software, and support response to potential security breaches.
• Identification of advancements to support innovation and adoption of new cryptographic technologies and techniques.
• Collaboration across the bank, including developers and security teams, to ensure cryptographic solutions align with business objectives, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Development, implementation, and maintenance of Identity and Access Management solutions and systems.

• TIBCO Business Works Expertise (BW 5/6).
• Strong hands‑on experience designing, building, and supporting integrations using TIBCO Business Works or an alternative product such as 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).
• Observability & Production Support.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Data Dog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Cloud Watch).
• Strong incident management, root cause analysis, and production support practices.

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, set objectives, coach employees, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• OR, for an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify new directions for projects.
• Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to work performed.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organisational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas to align business support with strategy and activity.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, including sensitive content and audiences.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will demonstrate the Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and will uphold the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.