Senior Staff Engineer in Knutsford

Senior Staff Engineer – Business Banking Technology

Barclays is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Business Banking Technology function, aligned to the Architecture Team.

This role sits at the heart of our CIO UK organisation and plays a critical part in delivering functionality that directly benefits our customers.

• Key Qualifications & Skills
• Ability to lead complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and a passion for tackling and owning the most challenging technical problems.
• Significant knowledge of software architecture paradigms and experience designing complex, scalable systems.
• Additional Highly Valued Skills
• Experience shaping and contributing to enterprise architecture and technology strategy.
• Extensive experience bridging technical and business communities, clearly communicating architectural trade‑offs, risks, and decisions.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear, evidence‑based reasoning.
• Location

Knutsford office.

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 promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute 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.
• 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 raise breaches of policies/procedures.

• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.

They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and 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 consistently excellent standards.

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 be a subject‑matter expert within their discipline and will guide technical direction.

They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying 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.
• Values & Mindset

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.

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