Java Tech 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.

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, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• 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 practises (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.

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.

Join us as a Java Tech Lead at Barclays, responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
To be successful as a Java Tech Lead you should have experience with:

• Hands-on Engineer Lead in Java, Cloud, CI/CD, AI tech stack
• Very Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design using Java or any other Language.
• Strong experience in Java 21
• Hands on experience in JEE frameworks e.g. Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot,  JPA or other ORM frameworks.
• Hands on experience on Microservices/REST endpoints Architecture. Good understanding Service Discovery, Load Balancing, Resiliency, etc.
• Strong Understanding of Messaging concepts and technologies Active MQ/RabbitMQ etc.
• Strong DevOps concepts and understanding of Open-source cloud technologies. AWS, OpenShift will be desired.
• Authentication – OAuth, OAuth 2
• Experience in Build tools like, Maven/Gradle etc.
• Experience with Devops tools, Gitlab Pipelines, AI/Gen AI use cases etc.
• Design and implement ETL/API solutions with Ab>Initio with massively parallel processing architecture.
• Strong understanding of ETL, Ab>Initio, Real Time processing with functional and non-functional assessment for global implementations, Ab>Initio (batch and real-time)
• Strong skills on ETL design patterns and data warehouse architecture
• Strong Design & Data Analytics Skills
• Hands-on experience in developing complex/medium/easy datasets using SQL tool.
• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehouse and data lakes that would manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Very good in Project Management and Program/Dependency Management.
• Exceptional Stakeholder Management skills.
• Great Collaboration skills and a go-getter.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Enterprise Containerization technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift etc.
• Experience in TDD (Test Driven Development), Junit, Mockito
• Experience in Code Scan tools – Sonarqube, Veracode, Prisma Scan, etc.
• Experience with API development and integration with 3rd party vendors.

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 is based in Pune.