Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.

• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.

• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.

• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.

• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.

• Learning: 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.

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 Barclays as a Mainframe ZOS Connect Engineer role, where to build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

• Responsible for administration, engineering, support, and continuous improvement of IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on z/OS and z/OS Connect platforms, ensuring platform stability, security, resilience, and availability for critical business applications.

• Administer and support WAS on z/OS and z/OS Connect environments across all stages (DEV, TEST,PROD).

• Perform installation, configuration, fix pack upgrades, patching, and platform maintenance activities.

• Manage middleware configurations including cells, nodes, clusters, server instances, and connectivity setup.

• Support z/OS Connect service deployment, configuration, and API runtime management.

• Perform SSL/TLS certificate management, SAF keyring updates, and security compliance activities.

• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with relevant teams and vendors (IBM support where required).

• Execute and govern production changes with implementation validation and rollback readiness.

• Monitor system health, analyze logs, and perform performance tuning for platform optimization.

• Drive automation and operational improvements using scripting and process standardization.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, and security teams for platform delivery and issue resolution.

• Support disaster recovery, resilience validation, and environment recovery testing activities.

• Provide technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and operational support across the team.

• Contribute to platform modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Mainframe modernization , SRE , Observability , API

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

• Able to provide 24x7 on call support

• A broad understanding of the business issues facing the Barclays Group as well as having a depth of understanding of a number of business issues and emerging trends in the IT industry   

• Should maintain a detailed understanding and knowledge of how the Bank’s systems, technical architectures and the nature of the work demand portfolio, so that they are fully aware of the impact of their own work on the Bank.

• Good communication skills required, ability to communicate complex concepts to a broad audience

• Ability to summarise and deliver key messages efficiently to senior stakeholders

• Acts as a key contact point for all project related queries including build, testing and implementation

• Leads in the completion of testing for projects and provide technical explanations of findings

• Supports less experienced colleagues through the entire project process from testing through to implementation

• Able to understand and articulate technical issues to a non-Mainframe/non-technical audience

• Provides comprehensive technical verbal updates of project status to team and produce non-technical written updates for project managers and business.

• Represents Mainframe area at project meetings and provide any inputs to help plan projects.

• Own platform stability and service reliability.

• Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation.

• Lead technical troubleshooting during critical incidents.

• Ensure governance, compliance, and operational excellence.

You may be assessed on the 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 in Chennai office.