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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a VP – Technical Lead - Compliance. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital landscape. In this role, harness technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, automation, operational simplification and ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. You will also play a key role in driving future integration and alignment with the Colleague CIO organization as part of our broader digital workplace and platform strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the application and integration architecture for enterprise-scale platforms, ensuring high-quality, secure, resilient, and compliant solutions for a global user base. Working closely with product owners, business analysts, and engineering teams, you will translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions and drive delivery through an agile operating model. You will lead the design and implementation of web, API, and integration services, establish engineering standards and best practices, and promote API-first, end-to-end development. The role also involves partnering with the Colleague CIO organization to enable future platform integration, providing technical leadership across distributed teams, governing architecture and integration patterns, and building and leading a high-performing engineering team through effective hiring, people management, and professional development.

To be successful as a VP – Technical Lead - Compliance, you should have:

• Considerable technical leadership with deep expertise in Java, Spring, Kafka, REST APIs, OpenShift, and modern engineering practices, with a proven ability to design and deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and compliant enterprise solutions

• Extensive experience in API-first architecture, microservices, and event-driven systems, including the design of asynchronous integration patterns and enterprise-grade distributed platforms

• In-depth knowledge of application security, identity, and access management, with practical experience implementing OAuth, OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, and other web service security standards

• Proven performance history of leading high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced environments, driving architecture governance, code quality, production stability, platform resilience, and mentoring engineers across global locations

• Ample DevOps and stakeholder management capabilities, including practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab, and Jenkins, combined with excellent communication skills to influence senior leaders and translate complex technical concepts into business value

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience with modern cloud platforms, including OpenShift, AWS, delivering scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise solutions

• AI-first mindset with a passion for leveraging AI and intelligent automation to enhance engineering productivity, improve software quality, and enable governed agentic and workflow-driven solutions

• Considerable Python development experience, with the ability to build, integrate, and automate business and technology solutions

• Solid understanding of Agile delivery practices, with practical experience working within Scrum and Kanban frameworks to deliver value iteratively and efficiently

• Continuous improvement mindset, embracing emerging technologies, modern engineering practices, and data-driven ways of working to accelerate business outcomes

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.