EDP Customer Engineering Lead at Barclays · Knutsford

EDP Customer Engineering Lead Location: Knutsford, Radbroke Hall Job Description 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. Join us as an Engineering Lead – Enterprise Data Platform for Barclays Customer, Comms and Mar Tech team, where you will play a pivotal role in leading the technical design and delivery of data solutions supporting the migration to a cloud-based Enterprise Data Platform (EDP). You will be responsible for shaping how Customer, Comms and MarTech data is provisioned and configured in the Data Lab environments, integrated and consumed, enabling scalable, secure, and efficient data capabilities across the organisation. This role sits at the heart of a strategic transformation to replace legacy data warehouses and platforms with a modern cloud-native EDP. You will lead engineering solution design, define new data architecture patterns including orchestration, and scheduling, and ensure seamless integration with downstream systems while maintaining high standards of data quality, security, and operational resilience. The role will include; leading the design and build of scalable data pipelines and integrations on AWS, driving the migration of customer and MarTech datasets from legacy platforms to the EDP, and establishing robust DevOps and DataOps practices to ensure production-ready, reliable, and high-performing data products. To be successful as an EDP Customer Engineering Lead, you should have: • Strong hands-on expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, and Databricks, with the ability to build and optimise scalable data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets • Experience implementing CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms, including GitLab workflows, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and environment management • Proven experience delivering AWS solutions including cloud infrastructure with a focus on performance tuning, monitoring, data quality, security, and cost optimisation Some other highly valued skills may include: • Understanding of Enterprise Data Platform concepts, including data products, domains, and consumption patterns with a focus on operability and production readiness • Awareness of data security practices, particularly in handling sensitive data using governed and automated approaches • Experience with file-based integration patterns, including managing constraints around file formats, splitting, and downstream system limitations You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is based in Knutsford.