Engineering Excellence Lead

Join Barclays as an Engineering Excellence Lead
, where you will help shape and elevate engineering practices across the organisation. Working within the Engineering Excellence Team in the Development Platform organisation, you will drive developer education, community engagement, and the adoption of modern engineering tools, platforms, and best practices. This highly impactful role combines deep technical expertise with coaching, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement, enabling you to influence engineers at scale through training, workshops, content creation, events, platform enablement, and data-driven insights.

If you are passionate about software engineering, developer experience, and helping others grow their technical capabilities, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact across Barclays' engineering community.

• Strong software engineering background, with hands-on experience in modern development practices (CI/CD, Dev Ops, Infrastructure as Code, etc.).
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, Go, etc.).
• Ability to build technical demos, hands-on workshops, prototypes, and code samples to support education efforts.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills, comfortable addressing audiences of all sizes.

• Hands-on experience with Agentic-AI tools such a Claude Code.
• A natural community builder with a talent for engaging and motivating developers.
• Passion for teaching, mentoring, and helping others grow.
• Strong technical writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.

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.

The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow Campus.

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 accelerate 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.
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