# AI Engineering Lead - Vice President

**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 AI Engineering Lead - Vice President to spearhead the evolution of our ML/AI infrastructure, platform services, and deployment pipelines at Barclays, driving innovation and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organisational objectives.

- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritisation to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.

- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.

- Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimise team productivity.

- Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.

- Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

**Vice President Expectations:**

- Contribute to 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.

- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work of your team.

- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

**Requirements:**

- Hands-on expertise in designing, building, and maintaining AWS platforms supporting AI workloads (ML, GenAI, agentic systems), exposure to CI/CD pipelines and IAC-based deployments.

- Proven experience working across security, governance, architecture, and business stakeholders, navigating complex enterprise environments.

- A product-oriented approach, with a focus on outcomes, scalability, self-service capabilities, continuous evolution, and exceptional user experience.

- Experience building high-performance technical teams.

- Comfortable with AI tools like Claude code and similar, applying structured rules, skills, and reusable patterns to accelerate development.

**Nice to Have:**

- Practical experience building ML models and developing GenAI applications.

- Experience working in Agile environments, collaborating iteratively and delivering incremental value.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- AI
- ML
- GenAI
- CI/CD
- IAC
- Agile
- Cloud Computing

### Nice to have
- ML models
- GenAI applications
- Agile environments

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