Barclays

Engineering Lead - Applied AI

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Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, improve, and deliver scalable, maintainable, secure, and high-quality software solutions.
  • Lead the evolution of data technologies through applied AI and drive innovation, operational excellence, and responsible AI use.
  • Define software requirements and solution strategies with product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders.
  • Provide technical leadership in software architecture, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, project planning, and execution.
  • Conduct code reviews, promote code quality and knowledge sharing, and implement effective unit testing practices.
  • Advise senior stakeholders, guide technical direction, and lead collaborative multi-year assignments.
  • Manage risks, strengthen controls, and ensure adherence to secure coding, governance, and organizational policies.

Requirements

  • Experience with applied AI, including Claude CLI, OpenAI SDK, Google ADK, RAG, LangChain, Langfuse, Bedrock, guardrails, vector databases, and advanced prompting.
  • Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies including Python, IAM, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, RDS, PostgreSQL, ECS, EKS, and CloudFormation.
  • Technical leadership exposure in software architecture, line management, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and project planning and execution.
  • Excellent client-facing and stakeholder communication skills.
  • Desirable experience with Hadoop, Impala, Hive, Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst, StarRocks, data governance, and associated controls.
  • Ability to demonstrate risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.

Benefits

  • The role can be based in Pune.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache HiveAWSDatabricksPostgreSQLPythonSnowflake

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About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients, and communities. For further information about Barclays, please visit home.barclays.

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