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Join us as a Software Engineer – Confluent Kafka Management at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, distributed streaming platforms, Kubernetes orchestration, and multi-region architecture patterns.
Job Responsibility:
Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability
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
Requirements:
Design, develop, and operate event‑driven architectures (EDA) using industry‑standard messaging and streaming platforms, ensuring high throughput, low latency, and resilience
Provide deep expertise in stream processing concepts including event ordering, partitioning, replay, schema evolution, and exactly‑once/at‑least‑once semantics
Act as a technical authority for streaming and EDA design decisions across delivery teams
Demonstrated, hands‑on expertise with Confluent Kafka ecosystem including topics, partitions, producers/consumers, schema registry, connectors, and operational best practices
Drive platform stability, performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident management for Kafka‑centric systems in line with BUK Service First and SRE principles
Lead the design, deployment, and operation of containerised applications on Amazon EKS, ensuring secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes clusters
Drive Ansible‑led automation strategies across cloud and streaming platforms, enabling repeatable, policy‑driven configuration, operational resilience, and DevOps efficiency while aligning with BUK security, risk, and compliance standards
Demonstrate advanced Kubernetes expertise, including operators, StatefulSets, persistent volumes, services, ingress controllers, and cluster networking, supporting stateful and stateless workloads
Establish best practices for cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, observability, and cost optimization across environments
Architect and operate cloud‑native solutions with deep hands‑on expertise across AWS core services
Ensure all solutions comply with Barclays security, risk, and regulatory standards, embedding security‑by‑design and least‑privilege access models
Own and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform and CloudFormation, enabling repeatable, auditable, and scalable cloud provisioning
Drive automation of environment builds, platform configuration, and operational runbooks to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability
Design and implement multi‑region AWS architectures, including active‑active and active‑passive deployments, with clear failover, disaster recovery, and data consistency strategies
Apply DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, MTTR) to drive delivery predictability and engineering health
Champion engineering discipline, automation, and data‑driven decision making across delivery cycles
Strong familiarity with modern developer tooling including GitLab, DevSecOps pipelines, and secure CI/CD practices
Hands‑on experience with: Docker Desktop for local containerized development, IntelliJ IDEA or equivalent enterprise IDEs and Secure source control, branching strategies, and automated quality gates
Drive a test‑first, quality‑driven engineering culture with hands‑on experience in: Contract Testing (PACT) for consumer‑provider assurance, Unit Testing (JUnit) and integration testing, Performance & load testing (JMeter), Mutation testing to validate test effectiveness
Ensure test coverage and automation are embedded into CI/CD pipelines, not treated as post‑delivery activities
Working knowledge of AWS services relevant to event‑driven and streaming workloads
Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes (K8s), including container orchestration and scaling concepts
Demonstrate strong awareness and practical adoption of AI‑assisted engineering practices with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitLab Duo, Copilot or equivalent) to support code generation, refactoring, documentation, and test creation, while retaining engineering judgement and accountability
Operate as a senior Individual Contributor (ICE) with end‑to‑end ownership of complex platform components, requiring minimal supervision and demonstrating strong engineering accountability
Work effectively within Agile/Scrum delivery models, using Jira for backlog management, delivery tracking, and sprint execution
Apply strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve complex issues in distributed, event‑driven systems
Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication, producing clear architecture designs, decision records, and technical documentation
Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams (engineering, DevOps, security, architecture) to deliver integrated, enterprise‑ready solutions
Exhibit strong ownership, self‑drive, and innovation mindset, staying current with cloud‑native technologies and modern engineering best practices
What we offer:
Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution
Health and wellness access to wellness rooms, gyms and mental health support