Lead Platform Engineer

Join us as a Lead Platform Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. We are on the lookout for a Lead Software Developer who is interested in working on the tools, frameworks, and libraries for other Engineering teams. You’ll support a large community of several thousands of engineers, creating progressive technology and patterns to adopt in their work to enable quicker, more efficient, and effective releases of software up to Production, while continuously increasing its quality.

To be successful as a Lead Platform Engineer, you should have:

• Hands-on programming experience in Python, or Golang, or Java.
• Extensive experience in container technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Public Cloud experience – AWS (ideally), Azure.
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation – Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Experience with Observability / Monitoring technologies like ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Awareness of current AI / GenAI offerings on the market – LLMs, code assistants, agentic coding, etc.
• Accountability, sense of ownership and “Getting job done” mindset.

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 out of our Glasgow office.

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 colleagu...

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