VP : Java Backend Engineering Lead

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. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring 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.
• Collaboration 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Join us as a Senior Application Developer-VP, where you will play a pivotal role in engineering the foundational and non-functional components for International Disbursement Proposition, one of the tenants on inhouse built Payments Platform. You will contribute to a multi‑year modernization journey, transforming a legacy monolithic architecture into a cloud‑native, scalable, resilient ecosystem supporting revenue‑critical operations across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. This role requires a hands‑on technologist with deep expertise in Java, Spring boot, Kafka, Bulk Payment platform and able to work front‑to‑back with global teams. You will build the multiple reusable core functional and technical foundations for Payments Platform —ensuring the platform is resilient, secure, observable, and performance‑optimized. Candidates who add strength in areas such Microservices Messaging & API Architecture, Performance tuning would be highly preferred.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Designing and delivering cloud native, event driven, Java and Spring boot based microservices aligned architectures using RedHat Open Shift, Kafka, Oracle, MongoDB, Apache Drools, IBM MQ and fully aligned to Enterprise Architecture Patterns.
• Some additional skills needed are Transaction Management, Performance Tuning, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Building bulk processing high throughput engines.
• Driving strong engineering discipline — code reviews, automated validation, performance tuning, observability, and enterprise grade CI/CD practices.
• Partnering with global architects and senior stakeholders to convert conceptual designs into production ready components, and leading Agile delivery with clear requirements, estimation, and end to end ownership.
• Ensuring production readiness across resilience, monitoring, alerting, data integrity, and operational stability, while supporting RTB operations through incident triage, RCA, and robust fixes.
• Leading Team for quality delivery and building multiple reusable patterns.

Some of the Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Strong collaboration with stakeholders across different up and downstream partners.
• Technical leadership through coaching, code/design reviews, knowledge sharing, and building reusable frameworks and engineering assets that accelerate modernization.
• Demonstrating engineering excellence via PoCs, architecture reviews, and continuous improvement, while ensuring high standards in testing, non‑functional readiness, observability, and resilience.
• Good to have: Gitlab pipeline knowledge.

You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills, Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.

The location of the role is Pune, IN