Engineering Lead

Pune, India

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90280842

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Job Title:Engineering Lead

Location: Pune

Introduction:

To help conceive, design, develop & deliver innovative IT solutions to provide payment acceptance and processing services to Barclay’s merchants.
To lead components of system engineering activity for applications / products across the end-to-end software development lifecycle.

What will you be doing?

Driving the engineering strategy (development and testing) for BPI platform and ensure alignment with the go-to architecture
Driving the strategy for E2E testing, automation and non-functional testing
Ensuring end to end engineering delivery right from demand inception through to release management and production roll-out
Driving team’s journey to fully Agile feature team based delivery model extensively utilizing automated DevOps CI:CD pipelines
Driving engineering and process efficiencies with focus on automated metrics reporting
People management including engagement, performance and development decisions
Support the Quality management process to ensure product delivered is of the highest quality
Managing multiple demands, resource supply and orchestrating delivery of multiple changes across releases in adherence to organizational process governance
Owning engineering delivery framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards, are integrated effectively across all engineering areas, are unambiguous and achievable, and that dependencies are clearly understood and managed
Driving new ways of working to improve colleague engagement and efficiencies

What we’re looking for:

Experience building world class software and building and managing world class software development teams; Proven ability to build effective internal relationships
Experience in conceiving test strategy (approach, E2E testing and Automation) and implement it portfolio wide
Ability to collaborate across teams to deliver complex systems and components and evaluate code for performance, understand key code metrics and take design decisions
Knowledge of DevOps and CI:CD
Experience of participating as a member of an Agile development team
Experience building critical software with 24x7 availability, high performance and resilient
Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage upwards and downwards, working closely with senior business leaders
Experience of managing business change/transformation challenges
Strong leadership skills with evidence of managing large teams across a range of disciplines and locations
Fully up to date with developments in individual area of expertise and will be expected to keep abreast of emerging technologies and potential for application within the Bank.
Ability to negotiate and solicit engagement at all levels of the organisation, and strong experience of working with senior stakeholders (up to and including MD level)
Guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization
Governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g. data security, records management.

Skills that will help you in the Role:

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science and strong analytical skills including ability to provide observations and comment with an understanding of change management process.
Experience of working in card Issuing Domain
Software testing foundation qualification
Awareness of design principles, architecture standards
knowledge of API
Experience of developing software for multiple Operating Systems (e.g. Linux, Windows)
Ability to collaborate across teams to deliver complex systems and components and evaluate code for performance, understand key code metrics and take design decisions.

Where will you be working?

Pune

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