# Engineering Lead - Data and Applied AI

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

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## Description

We are seeking an Engineering Lead - Data and Applied AI to spearhead the evolution of our data technologies landscape through AI, driving innovation, and operational excellence.

You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure applications, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions backed by responsible use of AI.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, develop, and improve software using various engineering methodologies

- Ensure code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance

- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define software requirements and devise solution strategies

- Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing

- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations

- Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data

- Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability

**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

- Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies

- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought

- Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

**Requirements**

- Experience in Applied AI – Claude CLI / OpenAI SDK / Google ADK, RAG, LangChain, Langfuse, Bedrock, Guardrails, vector databases, advanced prompting

- Working knowledge of AWS – Python, IAM, S3, Lambda, Step functions, Cloudwatch, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, RDS, Postgres, ECS, EKS, Cloud Formation

- Tech Leadership exposure within Software Architecture, line management, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, project planning & execution

- Excellent client-facing and stakeholder communication skills

**Desirable skills sets:**

- Experience in Big Data skills (Hadoop, Impala & Hive)

- Experience in Cloud Data technologies such as snowflake, databricks, starburst, star rocks

- Strong understanding of data governance and associated controls

## Skills

### Required
- Applied AI
- AWS
- Python
- Software Architecture
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Big Data
- Cloud Data technologies
- data governance

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