Front Office Developer Platform Lead

Join Barclays as a Developer Platform Lead to own and scale our internal platform used by hundreds of engineers across the organization to build, deploy, and operate production applications.

Your team will be delivering a developer portal site, platform runtime services in Python, CI/CD pipelines, cloud/Kubernetes runtimes, automated governance tooling, software templates, and integrations with enterprise services. This role combines strategy, architecture, and hands‑on platform engineering leadership.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to build and maintain relationships with business colleagues
• Full-stack application development experience with Python
• Proficiency in Git Lab/Git Hub and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization

• Experience in building an Internal Developer Platform for enterprise use
• Experience with leading finance platforms like GS SecDB, JPM Athena, BoA Quartz, Beacon
• Experience embedding compliance controls and secure architectures into developer workflows
• Proficiency in web development with Type Script/JavaScript (React preferred)
• Experience with AWS or another public cloud provider

You may be assessed on key critical skills essential for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technological expertise, alongside job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in London, 2 days in office per week.

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 elevate 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 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less…