Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer

About the role

Embark on a high-impact opportunity as a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer, where you will help accelerate Barclays’ cloud modernization by designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions that power critical business capabilities. In this role, you will work with cloud technologies, enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and enhanced customer experiences across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensure 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.
• Collaborate 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.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Requirements

• Experience with Software development building enterprise-grade applications.
• Solid experience in Java & Spring frameworks.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services - MSK, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Networking concepts, Cloud Formation to design and deploy scalable applications.
• Knowledge of messaging platforms and integrations - Kafka, Webhooks & events streaming.

Qualifications

• Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:
• Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools/frameworks like CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Telemetry or equivalent tools.
• AI enthusiast with an understanding of Agentic-AI fundamentals and frameworks.
• Exposure to the financial domain, particularly Core Processors such as TSYS, FDR, FIS.

Skills

• Risk and controls.
• Change and transformation.
• Business acumen.
• Strategic thinking.
• Digital and technology.
• Job-specific technical skills.

Benefits

This role is located in Whippany, NJ. Minimum Salary: $ 120,000 Maximum Salary: $ 175,000. The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Pay

Minimum Salary: $ 120,000 Maximum Salary: $ 175,000

Schedule

N/A

Skills

• Software development building enterprise-grade applications.
• Java & Spring frameworks.
• Micro-services architecture.
• AWS Cloud Services - MSK, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Networking concepts, Cloud Formation.
• Messaging platforms and integrations - Kafka, Webhooks & events streaming.
• Observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Tools/frameworks like CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Telemetry or equivalent tools.
• Agentic-AI fundamentals and frameworks.
• Financial domain exposure, particularly Core Processors such as TSYS, FDR, FIS.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development and AWS Cloud Engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Experience with microservices architecture and AWS services.
• Strong understanding of observability practices and AI principles.
• Experience in the financial domain, particularly Core Processors such as TSYS, FDR, FIS.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.