Front Office Developer Platform Lead

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 colleagues.

• Develop and deliver high quality software solutions using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, actively contributing to the organization's technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies and procedures.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, plan future departmental needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions.
• Lead specialists and influence department operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.
• Act as a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction, leading collaborative multi year assignments, and coaching less experienced specialists.
• Advise stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross functional impacts, manage risks, and strengthen controls.
• Collaborate with other work areas to support business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, adopting extensive research to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships to accomplish key business objectives.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Join Barclays as a Developer Platform Lead to own and scale our internal platform used by hundreds of engineers across the organization to build, deploy, and operate production applications. Your team will deliver a developer portal site, platform runtime services in Python, CI/CD pipelines, cloud/Kubernetes runtimes, automated governance tooling, software templates, and integrations with enterprise services. This role combines strategy, architecture, and hands on platform engineering leadership.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to build and maintain relationships with business colleagues.
• Full stack application development experience with Python.
• Proficiency in GitLab/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization.
• Experience building an internal developer platform for enterprise use (highly valued).
• Experience with leading finance platforms such as GS SecDB, JPM Athena, BoA Quartz, and Beacon.
• Experience embedding compliance controls and secure architectures into developer workflows.
• Proficiency in web development with TypeScript/JavaScript (React preferred).
• Experience with AWS or another public cloud provider.

You may be assessed on key critical skills essential for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technological expertise, along with job specific technical skills.

This role is based in London, with two days in office per week.