Join us as a Lead Network Engineer within the Complex Delivery team at Barclays, where you will act as a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more network technologies and take ownership of end-to-end delivery across strategic programmes. You will lead the technical execution, ensuring alignment with architecture and compliance standards, and guide engineers assigned to your programme—providing direction, support, and progress updates to the wider leadership team.
To be successful as a Lead Network Engineer, you should have:
Additional skills include:
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills .
This role will be based in our office in either Knutsford or Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as a Lead Network Engineer within the Complex Delivery team at Barclays, where you will act as a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more network technologies and take ownership of end-to-end delivery across strategic programmes. You will lead the technical execution, ensuring alignment with architecture and compliance standards, and guide engineers assigned to your programme—providing direction, support, and progress updates to the wider leadership team.
To be successful as a Lead Network Engineer, you should have:
Additional skills include:
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills .
This role will be based in our office in either Knutsford or Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessEmbark on a transformative journey as an Engineering Manager Production Network Engineering at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness describe an aspect of the team or role technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
Production Network Engineering is a new mission aligned operating model within the newly formed Network Product Design & Engineering domain at Barclays. Network Product Design & Engineering is responsible for the design, build and run of the underlying strategic network infrastructure platforms and the over-the-top connectivity products and services that enable colleagues, guests and partners.
To be successful in this role as an Engineering Manager – Production Network Engineering, you should possess the following skillsets:
Extensive experience as an individual contributor and a leader of teams that design , build and operate network products across all 7 layers of the OSI stack from physical through to virtual. Specialist understanding of Layer 1 - 4 Protocols for example G.9802.1/WDM, Ethernet, VXLAN, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Access Transport for example PON, xDSL, DOCSIS, FWA, Wireless Standards for example Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, MEF Standards for example CE.3.0, LSO, Overlay IP/VPN technologies for example RFC2547bis, RFC7432, RFC8365/RFC9746, Software Defined Networking and Network Instrumentation technologies for example gNMI/gRPC, Y.1731, Y.1564, TWAMP
Experience of virtual infrastructure ecosystems for example Openstack, Kubernetes, QEMU, KVM, HCI across Cloud Platforms (Public/Private/Hybrid) and uCPE Platforms (x86, aRM), including open networking technologies for example routing daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP), ONF stack, LINUX Networking (eBFF, VPP, AF_XDP), DENT, SONiC or Cumulus
Experience in network programming/automation, IaC, configuration management tools and data modelling for example RESTCONF, NETCONF/YANG, Python, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; with demonstrable experience of DevOps, agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
Some other highly valued skills include:
Experience working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of classical network element management, SDN Controllers and ETSI MANO. A very good understanding of Application Layer Network Protocols - HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, DNS, DHCP, CCIE or equivalent certification an added advantage
Experience in Network Access control (NAC) and RADIUS based AAA for secure and automated access supporting Corporate and Guests users, including experience with concepts of zero trust networking
Skilled in lifecycle management of network products and services including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, service design & development, testing and deployment at scale, including proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO).
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 our London office.
Purpose of the role
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessEmbark on a transformative journey as an Infrastructure Engineer Production Network Engineering at Barclays, where you spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.
Production Network Engineering is a new mission aligned operating model within the newly formed Network Product Design & Engineering domain at Barclays. Network Product Design & Engineering is responsible for the design, build and run of the underlying strategic network infrastructure platforms and the over-the-top connectivity products and services that enable systems, colleagues, guests and partners
To be successful in this role as an Infrastructure Engineer – Production Network Engineering, you should possess the following skillsets:
Extensive experience as an individual contributor that design, build and operate network products across all 7 layers of the OSI stack from physical through to virtual (i.e.,Openstack, Kubernetes, KVM) infrastructure ecosystems across Cloud platforms, On-prem and uCPE, including open networking technologies for example routing daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP), LINUX Networking (eBFF, VPP, XDP), Tungsten Fabric, SONiC, Cumulus or other LINUX-based open NOS
Deep understanding of Layer 1 - 4 Protocols, Wireless Standards such as Wi-Fi, MEF Standards for example CE.3.0, LSO, ETSI MANO, Overlay IP/VPN technologies such as RFC2547bis, RFC7432, RFC8365/RFC9746, SD-WAN and Network Instrumentation technologies for example gNMI/gRPC, Y.1731, Y.1564, TWAMP
Good experience in network programming/automation, IaC, configuration management tools and data modelling for example RESTCONF, NETCONF/YANG, Python, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; with demonstrable experience of DevOps, agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
Some other highly valued skills include:
Experience working in Network and infrastructure operational product engineering and knowledge of network element management plane, control plane, data plane and fast switching. A very good understanding of Application Layer Network Protocols - HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL, DNS, DHCP, CCIE or equivalent certification an added advantage.
Experience in Network Access control (NAC) and RADIUS based AAA for secure and automated access supporting Corporate and Guests users, including experience with concepts of zero trust networking
Skilled in lifecycle management of network products and services including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, service design & development, testing and deployment at scale, including proficiency in Agile Methodologies Scrum/Kanban, backlog and workflow mgmt. and SRE specific reporting (MTTR, deployment frequency, SLO.)
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 our Knutsford office.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as a Site Reliability Engineer where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
As a Microsoft SQL Database Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Barclays, you will assume a key technical role. You will assist in shaping the direction of our database administration, ensuring our technological approaches are innovative and aligned with the Bank’s business goals. You will contribute high-impact projects to completion, collaborate with management, and implement SRE practices using software engineering and database administration to address infrastructure and operational challenges at scale.
As part of the Database SRE team, you will be data-driven and work to eliminate TOIL through simplification, automation, and observability, thereby enhancing the reliability of our platforms. With a focus on database scalability, availability, security, and performance, you will work closely with the Engineering team, product managers, and other teams. You will ensure the seamless flow and robust security of information on our platforms, meeting high traffic volumes and demanding operational needs.
To be successful as a Site Reliability Engineer, you should have experience with:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
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 will be based in our Knutsford campus.
Purpose of the role
To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.
Accountabilities
Assistant Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as an SRE Lead – Messaging at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
To be successful as an SRE Lead – Messaging you should have experience with:
Other highly valued skills include:
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this 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 will be based out of our Knutsford campus.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as an Oracle Site Reliability Engineer to help us build and maintain resilient, high-performing systems in a fast-paced financial services environment. If you’re passionate about automation, observability, and continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you.
To be successful as a Oracle Site Reliability Engineer, you should have experience with:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
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 will be based in Knutsford.
Purpose of the role
To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.
Accountabilities
Assistant Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as an AVP in IMS Systems Programming at Barclays, you’ll play a pivotal role in integrating advanced technologies that power resilient, scalable systems—critical to the success of our enterprise-wide infrastructure and application services.
If you're passionate about mainframe systems, thrive in high-impact environments, and want to shape the future of banking technology, we’d love to hear from you.
To be successful as an IMS Systems Programmer at this level , you should have experience with:
Configuring and managing IMS in a parallel Sysplex environment.
Deep understanding of IMS software management concepts including SMP
Strong Z/OS skills in JCL/TWS/REXX/RACF
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Assembler
IMS connect knowledge
IMS mACB
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 will be based out of our Knutsford office.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
Accountabilities
Assistant Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us a Solution Designer to support the ongoing efforts to virtualise the banks infrastructure in a controlled, quality orientated and repeatable manner. The Solution Designer sits within The Service Delivery Team, based in the Radbroke, UK, and Whippany. They are accountable for managing infrastructure demand and optimisation on an ongoing basis, in addition to providing specialised support in various GTIS technologies split across both private and public cloud. You will be supporting the migration of applications to next generation virtualised platforms.
You will work with stakeholders and application teams to understand functional/ non-functional requirements, develop repeatable patterns and innovative approaches to migrations and feedback into engineering teams with requests for enhancement to ensure the platforms are able to support the widest number of use cases.
To be successful as a Solution Designer, you should have experience with:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
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 will be based out of our Knutsford office.
Purpose of the role
To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
Read LessJoin us as a Technical Product Manager to support the successful execution of multi-layered projects. This opportunity is ideal for someone who thrives in cross-functional environments, combines strategic thinking with customer-centric innovation, and is passionate about delivering impactful technology solutions from concept to completion.
To be successful as a Technical Product Manager for Trader and Enterprise Voice, you should have experience with:
Some other highly valued skills may include:
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 will be based either in Glasgow or Knutsford.
Purpose of the role
To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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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