Workload Automation Engineer in Knutsford

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as a Workload Automation Engineer, playing a critical role in supporting and enhancing an infrastructure that underpins the bank’s batch processing and automation capabilities. In this role, you will help manage and evolve a platform executing over 3 million jobs daily, ensuring stability, resilience, and compliance for business‑critical workflows used across Markets, RFT, and wider global technology teams. You will contribute to key initiatives such as platform upgrades, agent migrations, improved observability through AAI, and the development of automation solutions to reduce manual effort.

Please note that the role may include participation in an on‑call rota (approximately once every four weeks) as the platform moves into production, as well as occasional out‑of‑hours or weekend work aligned to major implementation activities.

To be successful in this role:

• Familiarity with scheduling tools.
• Experience with source control systems such as GitLab.
• Strong communication skills.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Administrative experience with scheduling tools, preferably AutoSys.
• Solid understanding of enterprise scheduler logic and best practices.
• Experience with automation tools such as Chef or Ansible.
• Experience with secrets management tools such as CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills. The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

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.

Accountabilities:

• Development and delivery of high‑quality software solutions by using industry‑aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimised for performance.
• Cross‑functional collaboration with product managers, designers and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participation in code reviews, and promoting a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organisation’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well‑developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes. 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: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices in other areas, teams, companies, etc. to solve problems creatively and effectively. Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. Influence or convince stakeholders 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.