Engineer Developer

Overview

Join us as an Engineer Developer in Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

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.

This role will be based in our Northampton or 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.

Experience and Skills

• Cloud Data Engineering (AWS, Snowflake, etc.):
  Proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS/Azure and Snowflake for scalable data storage, transformation, and querying.
• Dev Ops & Automation
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  Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), and automated testing frameworks. Knowledge of Git, Jenkins/Git Labs, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
• ETL & Data Pipeline Development
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  Ample skills in building and maintaining ETL workflows using tools like DBT, Ab-initio, Informatica, or Apache Airflow. Solid SQL and Python knowledge for Data transformation, schema design, and performance tuning.

• Experience with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and Cloud Watch for infrastructure provisioning and monitoring.
• Ample background in Generative AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Web Development:
  Familiar with Angular Framework for front-end web development and Java Programming for back-end server-side logic. Experienced with Microsoft SQL Server for storing and managing data.

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.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead…