Join Barclays as a Lead Full Stack Developer, responsible for, responsible for leading high-performing engineering teams and coordinating seamlessly with offshore delivery partners to ensure aligned priorities, predictable execution, and consistent outcomes. Drive the architecture and optimization of scalable client reporting platforms built on Spring Boot and modern technology stacks, delivering hundreds of thousands of reports daily with high performance and reliability. Accountable for service stability under strict SLAs, rapid production issue resolution, and continuous improvement through advanced monitoring, stakeholder collaboration, and strategic innovation.
To be successful, you should have:
- Team Leadership with Offshore Delivery Coordination- Proven experience leading and managing a high‑performing local technology team, with considerable capability to coordinate delivery with offshore leads and their respective teams. Demonstrated ability to align priorities, plans, and execution across locations through effective communication, dependency management, and governance, while maintaining clear accountability for local team outcomes, platform stability, and client commitments.
- Technical Expertise in Scalable Reporting Platforms: Bring deep experience with Spring Boot and Angular micro-frontends and modern design patterns and technology stacks to architect, build, and optimize high‑volume enterprise-grade client reporting systems that generate hundreds of thousands of reports daily with good performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Service Delivery & SLA‑Driven Production Support: Maintain platforms operating under strict SLAs, ensuring timely and accurate report delivery, and resolve production issues quickly and accurately through good incident‑management practices and technical expertise.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Stakeholder Engagement & Change Leadership: Collaborate with diverse business and technology teams to turn reporting needs into practical solutions, guide change, manage expectations, and keep teams aligned for continuous improvement in a fast‑moving environment.
- Strategic Innovation & Communication: Shape the future of client reporting by driving innovation, applying modern best practices and AI‑enabled tools, and explaining complex technical ideas in clear, accessible language for all audiences.
- Advanced Metrics, Monitoring & Alerting: Implement and use advanced metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems to maintain real‑time visibility of platform health, support rapid incident response, and strengthen ongoing operational excellence.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Glasgow.
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 optimized 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, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’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 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.
