AWS Engineer

Senior Engineer – AWS

The Sr. Engineer – AWS is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based solutions on Amazon Web Services. This role provides technical leadership across cloud engineering initiatives, ensuring platforms and services meet enterprise standards for performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and security. The Senior Engineer partners closely with all application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to enable modern engineering practices, accelerate cloud adoption, and support business‑critical workloads through robust architecture, automation, and continuous improvement.

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Understanding of Agile development and extensive hands‑on participation with SDLC life cycle
• Working proficiency with collaboration and tech documentation toolsets like workflows and use case diagrams
• Ability to collaborate with high‑performing teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals
• Excellent communication skills to present the API vision to stakeholders both internal and 3rd‑party clients
• Excellent analytical, communication, organizational and problem‑solving skills coupled with a strong work ethic
• Ability to perform market research, observe trends and make recommendations for the Fintech API product

To work across multiple phases of software development within a project as a team member or dealing with the most technically challenging assignments. This includes:

• Working directly with business areas to clarify detailed technical requirements
• Designing, coding and unit testing the most complex software components for new or enhanced IT systems to a high level of quality, producing appropriate documentation
• Providing technical support to business analyst/project managers and coaching less experienced staff across geographically dispersed teams
• Maintaining an expert level awareness of relevant software design techniques, development tools and processes, and providing leadership in the use of these across the organization area

Strong technical analytical skills are required to identify key trade‑offs in solutions design and technology choices, analyze relevant problem spaces, define congruent solution spaces and design optimal technical solutions possessing flexibility sufficient to enable their evolution alongside the needs of the business. Consistent analytical skills are required, always challenging and asking for the ‘why’ along with the ‘what’. Leveraging banking skills to ensure appropriate challenge and curiosity to peers and delivery partners who may not come from a financial services background.

Strong judgement skills for the true risk assessment on controls or quality gaps. Ensuring an appropriate balance of conversation across experience, controls, speed to market, etc.

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience.

Note:

experience requirements must not be in the form of years (minimum or otherwise).

• 4‑year Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent subject or experience
• 6+ years of experience working with software development teams
• Ability to plan, deliver client integrations end‑to‑end from inception to post‑launch support with impeccable execution by working closely with internal and third‑party partners
• Deep understanding of enterprise architectures, integration patterns, and API security
• Ability to perform thorough competitive market research on Fintech products and provide business reporting and data analysis skills
• Extensive experience with presentation skills to champion Fintech services/products in a wide variety of large forums including tech incubators, town halls,…