Engineering Manager – Agentic Engineering

Job Description

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

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization 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.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute 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..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.

Join us as an Engineering Manager – Agentic Engineering

At Barclays, we're changing how software gets built. AI agents now draft code, write tests, triage defects, fix vulnerabilities and review merge requests alongside our engineers, and we're looking for an Engineering Manager to help us make the most of that shift. This isn't about rolling out a tool. It's about leading a team where people and agents work well together, so we deliver better software faster and more safely for millions of customers.

You'll lead a team of talented engineers and treat agentic engineering as the way your team works, not a side project. You'll build the shared context agents need to do good work, rethink how your team delivers, and make sure engineers spend their time on what needs human judgement: framing problems, making architectural trade-offs, working with product and design, and handling the edge cases no agent will predict. You'll also create a team that great engineers want to join and don't want to leave.

What We Can Offer You

• The chance to shape how one of the UK's leading banks adopts agentic engineering at scale.
• A team environment where tedious work is automated and engineers focus on hard, interesting problems.
• Investment in your learning, including access to the latest AI engineering tools and communities of practice.
• Hybrid working

Purpose of the Role

To lead and develop a high-performing engineering team that uses agentic engineering to improve delivery speed, quality and engineer experience, while keeping the strong governance, security and auditability expected in a regulated environment.

To Be Successful in This Role, You Should Have

• Proven experience leading and growing software engineering teams in a complex, ideally regulated, environment.
• A strong engineering background with hands-on experience of modern software delivery (CI/CD, automated testing, code review, cloud or platform engineering).
• Practical experience using AI coding agents and assistants in day-to-day engineering, and a clear point of view on where they add value and where they need guardrails.
• A track record of improving delivery outcomes using DORA-style metrics rather than activity measures.
• A good understanding of secure coding practices, quality gates and engineering governance.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, product partners and engineers alike.
• A genuine commitment to developing people, building inclusive teams and creating psychological safety.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Experience designing reusable agent workflows, skills or instruction sets for an engineering team.
• Familiarity with orchestrating multiple agents, or with tools that connect agents to systems like Jira, GitLab and SonarQube.
• Experience redesigning hiring processes or career frameworks for modern engineering roles.
• Contributions to engineering communities of practice, internal talks or external thought leadership.

• Experience in financial services and an understanding of the related regulatory requirements

All colleagues are 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 are also expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive, the operating manual for how we behave.

The location of your role is Knutsford/Manchetser