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.