Engineering Lead - Director

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 09/06/2026

Business Area: Private Bank Processing

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000113897

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The CCX Tribe Director is accountable for end-to-end delivery, strategic alignment, and value realisation of the Client & Colleague Experience (CCX) tribe, with a specific focus on driving large-scale transformation initiatives. The role ensures that cross-tribe delivery, platform capabilities, and client-centric outcomes are executed in alignment with PBWM and Group strategic objectives.

Operating within a complex, multi-platform and multi-dependency ecosystem, the Tribe Director provides leadership across engineering, product, and delivery functions to:

Define and execute the tribe strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, regulatory requirements, and business priorities
Orchestrate delivery across multiple squads, platforms, and external partners, managing interlocks and dependencies across tribes, systems, and programmes such as PRISM.
Drive delivery at scale across key technology domains (e.g., Salesforce, Data, GenAI, integration and orchestration services), ensuring cohesive and integrated solutions.
Ensure governance, risk, and control adherence, embedding engineering excellence, cyber, and regulatory standards across all tribe deliverables.
Own financial outcomes and resource strategy, optimising investment utilisation, vendor engagement, and capacity planning to achieve delivery outcomes.
Lead senior stakeholder engagement, providing transparency on delivery, risks, and outcomes to PBWM leadership and ensuring alignment across business and technology.
Foster a high-performing, agile organisation, enabling squads to deliver customer-centric solutions while promoting a strong engineering and delivery culture.

Ultimately, the role is responsible for translating strategic transformation goals into tangible technology and client outcomes, while managing complexity, scale, and risk across the CCX landscape.

Key Accountabilities

Lead and develop high‑performing engineering teams, fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration and accountability.
Own and execute the engineering roadmap for the CCX platform, aligning frontend, backend‑for‑frontend and core API services to PBWM CCX technology strategy and Private Bank client experience objectives.
Drive modern client and colleague experiences using Angular, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Java‑based API and microservices architectures.
Maintain significant hands‑on engagement to provide technical leadership through architecture design, framework development, code and design reviews, and hands‑on contribution where complexity or acceleration is required.
Apply CCX and Private Bank domain understanding to translate client onboarding, servicing and lifecycle needs into intuitive, scalable and secure digital experiences.
Design and evolve organization‑wide UI frameworks, shared components and engineering standards to enable consistency, reuse and rapid delivery across CCX platforms.
Ensure strong backend‑to‑frontend integration patterns, API design and performance to support scalable, resilient and compliant client journeys.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX designers, CCX SMEs, Architects and Operations teams to ensure strong functional, technical and experience alignment.
Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, and act as senior escalation point for complex delivery and production issues.
Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory requirements, Enterprise‑Wide Risk Management Framework and Barclays policies and standards.

Essential Skills

Strong engineering leadership experience across frontend and full‑stack platforms in complex, regulated environments.
High‑level understanding of the CCX domain and Private Bank & Wealth Management business, including onboarding and client journeys.
Deep hands‑on experience with Angular, React, JavaScript/TypeScript and modern UI engineering practices.
Strong experience designing and building Java‑based APIs and microservices, including backend‑for‑frontend patterns.
Proven experience creating and governing shared frameworks, platforms or colleague‑facing engineering capabilities at scale.
Solid understanding of API design, performance optimization, security and integration patterns.
Experience working across Agile delivery models and multi‑team organizational structures.
Ability to balance hands‑on technical contribution with team leadership and delivery accountability.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and business audiences.
Understanding of operational resilience, vulnerability management and production support considerations.
Good experience with mobile technologies and mobile‑first design principles.

Critical Skills

Lead and develop high‑performing engineering teams, fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration and accountability.

Maintain significant hands‑on engagement to provide technical leadership through architecture design, framework development, code and design reviews, and hands‑on contribution where complexity or acceleration is required.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX designers, CCX SMEs, Architects and Operations teams to ensure strong functional, technical and experience alignment.
Design and evolve organization‑wide UI frameworks, shared components and engineering standards to enable consistency, reuse and rapid delivery across CCX platforms.
Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, and act as senior escalation point for complex delivery and production issues.

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.

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This role may be subject to enhanced governance arrangements. If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.

Further information on these requirements will be provided at a later stage of the process.

Who succeeds in
Tech at Barclays?

For a career with us, you need to be prepared to take big steps forward, curious to face the challenges ahead, and driven to focus on the outcomes. We need people with the Barclays mindset to make it happen here.

What you'll get in return

Competitive holiday allowance

Life assurance

Private medical care

Pension contribution

Our technology

Supporting our 48 million customers and clients worldwide takes a lot of forward thinking. It means harnessing technology to support the economy. It means making a difference to people’s lives. And it requires the maintenance and development of a global, technological infrastructure. At Barclays, technology helps us keep transactions moving, manages data, and protects our customers. Join a world where your work creates unique moments of impact. Make it happen here.

This is Barclays London

Our global HQ is in Canary Wharf, at the heart of London’s financial district. There are over 10,000 colleagues here – a hugely diverse workforce made up of the world’s best financial and tech talent. If you love the buzz of city life, this is the place to be.

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CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened.

Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

This is Barclays London

Supporting active commuters

Cycle or run to work? We’ve got everything you need – from cycle hire and parking areas to new showering and changing facilities.

Time to connect

CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened.

Wellbeing in focus

Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Advanced trading floors

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience. And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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