Engineering Manager

Join us as a Lead Engineering Manager at Barclays, where you will lead engineering delivery across strategic programmes, providing technical oversight, stakeholder leadership, and direction to engineering teams to ensure successful business outcomes. Drive engineering excellence, influence technical decisions, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role is expected to remain close to the technology and engineering lifecycle. Successful candidates will have recent practical software engineering experience and be comfortable reviewing code, challenging technical designs, troubleshooting complex production issues, and guiding engineering teams through hands-on technical leadership.

To be successful as a Lead Engineering Manager, you should have:

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, driving accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, and successful delivery outcomes.
• Strong technical background with recent hands-on software engineering experience. Demonstrable expertise in designing, developing, reviewing, and supporting enterprise-scale solutions using Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and relational database platforms (Oracle, PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS). Ability to actively contribute to architecture, code reviews, technical design discussions, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and production issue resolution.
• Experience managing end-to-end engineering delivery, ensuring programmes are delivered efficiently through effective planning, prioritisation, governance, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to remain technically current and contribute to solution design, engineering standards, platform modernisation, and technology strategy.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms using Java 21+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and relational databases.
• Proven track record of driving engineering quality through code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, resilience engineering, and operational excellence.
• Experience mentoring engineers through technical coaching, pair programming, design reviews, and engineering best practices.

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 London.

Purpose of the role To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members’ professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 escalate 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 d…