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.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Cross-functional collaboration, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends 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.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.

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.
• Experience with Messaging platforms and integrations - Kafka, Webhooks & events streaming.
• 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.

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

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

Benefits

Barclays offers a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

Pay

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

Schedule

The role is located in Whippany, NJ.

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.

Barclays Values and Mindset

• Respect
• Integrity
• Service
• Excellence
• Stewardship
• Empower
• Challenge
• Drive