Full Stack Engineer - VP

Job Description

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.

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 us as a Full Stack Engineer - VP at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

To be successful as a Full Stack Engineer - VP, you should have experience with:

• Extensive hands-on experience in Java (JDK 17+) , Spring Boot , Spring MVC, and building highly scalable, secure backend systems for financial and enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise in RESTful API design and development , microservices architecture, and service-to-service integrations in high-volume transactional environments.
• Strong experience in workflow orchestration and workflow management platforms , including designing and implementing long-running business processes, stateful workflows, and automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms , including Apache Kafka and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Strong experience with enterprise integration frameworks such as Apache Camel (or equivalent), implementing routing, mediation, transformation, orchestration, and API integration patterns across distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end full-stack development, including frontend-backend integration and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Hands-on experience with modern UI technologies including React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive web design, and frontend testing frameworks such as Jest or Jasmine.
• Experience working with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases, with strong focus on data integrity and performance.
• Strong knowledge of security standards and practices including OAuth2, JWT, authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure coding guidelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, build tools (Maven, Gradle), and secure deployments.
• Proficiency with version control systems (Git) and enterprise development workflows.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, system resiliency, fault tolerance, observability, and production support in mission-critical environments.
• Experience leading technical design discussions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers in large delivery teams.
• Hands-on experience developing and integrating solutions on Hyperledger Besu or other enterprise blockchain platforms.
• Strong understanding of blockchain network architecture, node operations, transaction lifecycle, consensus mechanisms, and enterprise DLT deployments.
• Practical experience developing, integrating, testing, and supporting Smart Contracts and blockchain-enabled business workflows.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with blockchain networks through APIs, events, message-driven architectures, and middleware platforms.
• Strong experience working in regulated environments with strict compliance, audit, and governance requirements.
• Deep understanding of system resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and performance optimization.
• Solid knowledge of design patterns, object-oriented principles, and enterprise architecture best practices.

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