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.
What will you be doing?
Barclays Services LLC seeks API Governance Engineer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):
Onboard APIs on Akana API Platform and establish governance processes for API lifecycle management. Ensure APIs comply with organizational policies and industry standards.
Assist clients, partners, and internal teams in integrating with organization of APIs. Provide step-by-step guidance during the onboarding process, including authentication setup, API usage and troubleshooting.
Create and manage onboarding workflows to streamline API integration. Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation including technical tutorials. Create API onboarding templates, reference samples and walkthroughs to simplify implementation.
Act as a point of contact between external partners and internal teams to address integration challenges and technical issues.
Manage and provision API access credentials for clients and partners. Setup and configure authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and SAML. Ensure secure API access and compliance with organizational policies.
Conduct training sessions or workshops for developers, business partners and internal clients to demonstrate API integration techniques. Provide technical support and best practices for utilizing APIs efficiently.
Assist users in testing API integrations, ensuring proper functionality and compliance with guidelines. Validate to ensure API calls performance and reliability expectations during onboarding. Troubleshoot issues and recommend solutions during integration.
Generate onboarding reports to share with stakeholders and assess the effectiveness of the process.
Contribute to the design and implementation of the tools to simplify the onboarding experience for users. Continuously improve onboarding approach based on user feedback and technological advancements.
Act as a technical scrum master to manage the delivery of user stories.
May telecommute.
Minimum Salary: $150,550 per year
Maximum Salary: $165,605 per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.
