Sr. Tech Lead – AWS

About the role

Embark on a transformative journey as a Sr. Tech Lead – AWS, where you will play a pivotal role in driving Barclays’ cloud modernization strategy and shaping the future of our core platforms. In this role, you will support the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient AWS solutions that accelerate innovation, enhance customer experiences, and enable enterprise-wide agility. You will have the unique opportunity to influence large-scale engineering decisions, work with technologies, and coach high-performing teams at the forefront of Barclays’ digital transformation.

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.
• 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.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.

Requirements

• Experience with Java & Spring frameworks, with solid experience in micro-services architecture.
• Deep understanding of enterprise system integrations - API, Events, Files, and business workflows.
• 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

• Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Services - MSK, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Networking concepts, Cloud Formation.
• Experience with Messaging platforms and integrations - Kafka, Webhooks & events streaming.
• 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.

Barclays employees are eligible for 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.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.