VP : Engineering Manager

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.

To be successful as an  Engineering Manager VP , you should have experience with:

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API solutions.
• Drive end-to-end delivery using Java, Spring Boot, React Native, REST APIs, Microservices, and Distributed Systems Architecture.
• Provide technical leadership across UI, backend services, integrations, databases, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Champion API-first, cloud-native, event-driven, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Establish and optimize CI/CD pipelines, Devops practices, automated testing, and release management processes.
• Ensure application performance, security, reliability, observability, and operational resilience.
• Drive adoption of enterprise monitoring and observability solutions including Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and similar platforms.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to deliver innovative customer-focused solutions.

AI, Automation & Software-Driven Development (SDD)

• Drive adoption of AI-powered Software Development (SDD) methodologies to accelerate application design, development, testing, documentation, and deployment.
• Leverage modern AI engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or equivalent platforms to improve engineering productivity and delivery outcomes.
• Lead initiatives focused on engineering automation, code generation, test automation, documentation automation, and developer experience enhancement.
• Establish best practices for secure and responsible adoption of AI within software engineering lifecycles.
• Promote AI governance, data protection, prompt engineering, and risk controls for enterprise AI adoption.

Engineering Excellence & Innovation

• Promote best practices in software engineering, architecture, code quality, security, and performance optimization.
• Drive modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that improve business agility and engineering efficiency.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

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 decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

We are seeking an accomplished Engineering Manager VP to drive the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale digital solutions across web, mobile, and API platforms. This leadership role combines deep technical expertise with strong people management capabilities to build high-performing teams, accelerate innovation, and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions aligned with business objectives.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java, Spring Boot, React Native, Microservices, REST APIs, Cloud Technologies, DevOps practices, and AI-assisted Software Development (SDD).

Bar Raiser Expectation :

• Must have modern engineering + modernization experience
• Hands-on with event-driven, microservices, Kafka Outcomes matter more than titles Prefer small-team technical leaders, not big managers
• AI literacy is mandatory (awareness > expertise)
• Bar Raisers test modernization thinking + AI perspective
• Engineering Manager assessed on productivity, delivery, ops metrics modernization or AI awareness, Future Readiness show curiosity, architecture depth, and continuous learning
• DORA Metrics - DevOps Research and Assessment
• SPACE Metrics - Satisfaction and well-being, Performance, Activity, Communication and collaboration, and Efficiency and flow

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.