Technology Lead

Overview

In this role, you will drive the strategic evolution of our global inventory management platforms, ensuring resilience, scalability, and innovation across critical post-trade functions. As a VP, you will provide technical leadership and architectural oversight, guiding teams to deliver high-performance, low-latency solutions that underpin funding, liquidity, and regulatory reporting capabilities. You will influence technology strategy, SAFE Agile adoption, and Dev Ops optimization, leveraging automation and cloud-native practices to enable real-time inventory visibility and robust controls.

You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders across Markets, Treasury, Liquid Financing, Operations, and Regulatory Reporting, shaping solutions that are both technically sound and commercially impactful. This is a unique opportunity to lead transformation initiatives aligned with Barclays’ 2026 vision for digital and operational excellence.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Should Have

• Proven ability to design and implement enterprise-scale architecture for financial systems, with hands-on expertise in Java, microservices, and event-driven frameworks.
• Deep experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, Solace, MQ) and integration patterns, combined with the ability to set technical direction and mentor teams.
• Strong Agile delivery leadership, incorporating design thinking, test-driven development (TDD), and behavior-driven design (BDD), while influencing senior stakeholders and aligning technology initiatives with business priorities.

Additional Skills Include

• Practical experience in cloud-native development (AWS, Open Shift, Kubernetes/Docker).
• Knowledge of data analytics and automation tooling for strategic decision-making.
• Understanding of inventory funding, securities lending, and settlement workflows.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of our Glasgow office.

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

• 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.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• 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…