Director - Engineering Lead - Digital Investing

Pune, India; Mumbai, India

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Key information

Date live: 04/22/2026

Business Area: Private Bank Processing

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000037380

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Overall Purpose of Role

The Director – Engineering Lead – Digital Investing is accountable for engineering leadership and delivery across Digital Investing platforms within PBWM. The role focuses on building and evolving high‑quality client and colleague experiences that support self‑directed and advised digital investing journeys, underpinned by scalable, secure and resilient digital platforms.

The role requires a strong understanding of the Digital Investing domain, including end‑to‑end investment journeys such as onboarding to investing, trading and execution, portfolio management and ongoing client servicing, to ensure platforms and experiences are fit for purpose in a regulated environment.

Operating as a senior member of the Digital Investing leadership team, the role provides deep engineering leadership while leading teams, shaping engineering standards, and partnering closely with Product, UX, Architecture, Operations and Risk to deliver predictable outcomes and sustained engineering excellence.

Key Accountabilities

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

Own and execute the engineering roadmap for Digital Investing, aligning frontend, middleware and backend services to PBWM technology strategy and Digital Investing business and client objectives.

Drive the design and delivery of modern, intuitive and scalable Digital Investing experiences across web and mobile channels, supported by robust API‑led and service‑based architectures.

Provide senior technical leadership across engineering design and delivery, maintaining appropriate hands‑on oversight where needed to drive quality, resolve complexity or accelerate outcomes.

Apply Digital Investing domain understanding to translate customer and colleague investment needs into secure, compliant and performant digital journeys.

Define, govern and evolve engineering standards, shared components and platform capabilities to enable consistency, reuse and efficient delivery across Digital Investing initiatives.

Ensure strong integration patterns, API design and non‑functional performance to support resilient, high‑volume investing and servicing journeys.

Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX designers, Architects, Operations teams and Digital Investing SMEs to ensure strong functional, technical and experience alignment end‑to‑end.

Drive continuous improvement across the Digital Investing engineering stack through platform modernisation, tooling improvements, automation and simplification.

Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, acting as senior escalation point for complex delivery, technology and production issues.

Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise‑Wide Risk Management Framework, and Barclays policies and standards, including security and operational resilience.

Essential Skills / Experience

Strong engineering leadership experience across digital and full‑stack platforms in complex, regulated environments.

Solid understanding of the Digital Investing domain, including customer investment journeys, trading, portfolio management and ongoing servicing.

Broad experience with modern frontend technologies and practices, and API‑led, service‑based backend architectures.

Proven experience shaping and governing shared engineering platforms, frameworks or capabilities at scale.

Strong understanding of engineering quality, non‑functional requirements, security, performance and resilience considerations.

Experience working across Agile delivery models and multi‑team, multi‑vendor organisational structures.

Ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to provide credible challenge and assurance.

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across senior technical and business audiences.

Understanding of operational resilience, vulnerability management and production support within a regulated financial services environment.

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.

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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 Pune

Barclays Pune is the largest campus outside of Barclays’ global headquarters in London. Our aim is to build game-changing technology that supports businesses and functions across the globe, offering the highest quality service to our clients and customers.

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

This is Barclays Pune

An innovative hub

It’s a state-of-the-art technology hub, and home to 9,000 colleagues across Operations, Technology and Functions.

Working better together

Pune Campus provides opportunities for our colleagues to innovate, collaborate, and deliver great outcomes for customers and clients.

A place where you can belong

Our welcoming and inclusive culture supports you to bring your whole self to work, explore your potential and pursue your passions.

An amazing place to work

Pune is a million-square-foot environment-friendly, ultra-modern workplace with excellent facilities for work, socialising and leisure.

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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