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Principal Engineer- Payments

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Job Description:

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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own and shape the end‑to‑end technical architecture of the Payments Platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance
  • Act as design authority for complex and high‑risk payments initiatives across multiple squads and domains
  • Define and enforce engineering standards, reference architectures, and non‑functional requirements (availability, latency, throughput, security)
  • Lead technical decisions across multi‑rail payments (e.g. real‑time, high‑value, cross‑border) and platform capabilities such as orchestration, clearing, and settlement
  • Embed security, controls, and operational resilience by design, partnering closely with Risk, Cyber, and Controls teams
  • Drive modernisation and platform evolution, reducing technical debt and enabling faster product and client onboarding
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, tech leads, and architects across Payments Technology
  • Influence delivery and outcomes without direct line management, acting as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders
  • Ensure high standards of engineering quality, including test strategy, CI/CD, observability, and incident learnings

Requirements:

  • Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture
  • Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization
  • Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews
  • Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies
  • Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
  • Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
  • Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others)
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 10, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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