# Platform Engineering Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Pune
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to join the Enterprise Data Platform team in Pune. The role focuses on leading the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native data and platform capabilities, driving strategic technology decisions, and enabling teams to build secure, high-performing platforms that accelerate innovation across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the design and delivery of distributed, event-driven, and data-intensive systems into production environments.

- Drive platform engineering initiatives across cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and secure-by-design architecture.

- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.

- Influence architecture, security, product, and delivery stakeholders to drive pragmatic technology outcomes.

- Navigate governance frameworks and regulatory requirements in a complex enterprise environment.

- Champion automation-first mindset and production-grade engineering practices across platform delivery.

- Build and promote reusable self-service platform capabilities, onboarding models, and integration frameworks.

- Oversee observability, alerting, incident handling, resilience, and continuous improvement for business-critical platforms.

- Ensure solutions meet Barclays standards for Security, Data Privacy, Resilience, and Operational Risk.

Required Skills:

- Proven software engineering experience designing and delivering distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems into production.

- Strong engineering judgement and automation-first mindset enabling robust, scalable, and efficient technology solutions.

- Strong expertise in cloud-native services, infrastructure as code, and scalable platform patterns.

- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and secure-by-design architecture principles.

- Experience with production-grade engineering practices driving reliable and secure platform delivery at scale.

- Knowledge of platform resilience, recovery strategies, and operational excellence.

Technical Leadership:

- Demonstrated technical leadership experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments.

- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence architecture, security, product, and delivery stakeholders.

- Experience guiding and mentoring engineering teams through complex technical challenges.

- Ability to navigate governance frameworks and drive alignment between business objectives and technology execution.

- Strong engineering judgement with focus on pragmatic, scalable solutions.

Engineering Practices:

- Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

- Commitment to secure coding, code quality, and engineering best practices.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to resolve complex production issues.

- Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud-native services
- infrastructure as code
- CI/CD pipelines
- secure-by-design architecture
- platform engineering
- data-intensive systems
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- containerization
- orchestration technologies
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Kafka
- Flink
- Schema Registry
- event schemas
- connectors
- real-time data pipelines
- AWS Cloud Services

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