Senior DevTool Engineer

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.

Join Barclays as a Senior DevTool Engineer role, where to design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.  At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

• Hands-on implementation of changes; from creating solution and writing code; to delivering release into production.

• Proficient in software engineering with a focus in Java, Golang, Spring & Spring Boot frameworks and with databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL.

• Experience in utilizing DevOps tools such as Git, GitLab for automating build, test, and deployment pipelines.

• Familiarity with building infrastructure as code (CloudFormation/Terraform) solutions for AWS based applications and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or AWS ECS with EC2/Fargate.

• Manage software tool ingestion into Developer Tooling using Jenkins pipeline and Golang ingestion application, understanding and transforming the tools into portable archive format

• Design, develop and maintain automated pipelines to standardize the ingestion and packaging of developer tooling related to major languages, cloud and modern application development.

• Write and manage configuration in Developer Tooling to control how software tools are installed and configured on end user devices

• Create Docker images combining ingested software tools into builder images to run application CICD pipelines in GitLab

• Create Docker images combining ingested software tools into application runtime base images

• Own, manage and support Docker Desktop product across Barclays

• Download and create SCCM packages of software tools for use across Barclays

• Design, implement and maintain mechanism for delivering and evergreening Visual Studio on end user devices

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

• Produce and maintain user facing documentation for Developer Tooling applications to ensure high levels of uptake

• Prepare materials and conduct training sessions on Developer Tooling applications to ensure high levels of uptake

• Design, develop and maintain metrics reports and dashboards to show Developer Tooling applications usage and trends

• Design, develop and maintain Go CLI application for delivering software tools to Barclays developer devices

• Participate collaboratively in team peer reviews of code and design

• Participate in team knowledge sharing and presentations

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 office.