Barclays

Engineering Lead - Applied AI

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2 months ago
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

Barclays is a UK‑based universal bank that provides retail and commercial banking, credit cards (Barclaycard), wealth management, and investment banking to consumers, businesses, and institutions. Publicly listed in London and New York, it generates revenue from net interest income, fees, and markets activities, and operates across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. Founded in 1690 and headquartered in London, it serves customers through digital channels and a branch network.

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