Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

• Influence or convince stakeholders 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 a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer at Barclays, where you will be responsible for supporting the successful delivery of location strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. 

To be successful as a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer you should have experience with:     

• Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS platform.

• Build, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC tools like CloudFormation and Service Catalog.

• Experience with as many AWS services as possible: IAM, S3, EC2 auto scaling, Containers, Secrets Manager, VPC/load balancing/networking

• Drive CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab and Git.

• Experience in designing resilient AWS architecture designs.

• Expected to be an excellent communicator (verbal and written) and collaborator, and have strong organization skills with ability to liaise with technical and non-technical resources.

• Knowledge on Release Management related industry-wide CI/CD tool sets and concepts.

• Understanding of SDLC and ITIL.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Key focus on the quality and security aspects of the solutions implemented by the team.

• Must be able to multi-task efficiently

• Analyse new requirements to finalize the most appropriate technical solution.

• Have an inquisitive nature; able to work independently to take a problem, break it down, recognize additional questions and find solutions

• Highly organized, structured and result driven

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Pune.