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Director, WCR Lead Engineer

Barclays Shared Services Pvt. Ltd

3.9

based on 1.1k Reviews

12-17 years

Pune

1 vacancy

Director, WCR Lead Engineer

Barclays Shared Services

posted 5hr ago

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Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Medical Coding Active Directory Agile Coaching Continuous Improvement Risk Assessment System Integration

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Job Description

The key responsibilities include:

Strategic Leadership and Vision:

Define and communicate the technology strategy and roadmap for credit risk management systems aligned with business goals.
Drive innovation and continuous improvement in risk assessment, reporting, and decision-making tools.

Agile Transformation and Delivery:

Implement and scale agile methodologies (e.g., SAFe) to enhance productivity, transparency, and adaptability.
Oversee multiple agile teams, ensuring effective collaboration, delivery cadence, and quality standards.

Technology and Architecture Oversight:

Lead the design, development, and deployment of robust, scalable, and secure credit risk platforms.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, focusing on system integration, data accuracy, and regulatory compliance.

Leadership and Development:

Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of agility, innovation, and accountability.
Ensure continuous skill development to keep pace with emerging technologies and industry trends.
Defining and delivering enterprise-level data architecture and cloud technologies (both on-prem and off-prem), creating robust and scalable solutions to meet business and technology outcomes.
Delivering future state data capabilities as part of business-critical initiatives driving significant cost, efficiency, and control improvements within the organization.
Acting as the expert engineer for the technology team, involving line management, mentorship, and leading the overall colleague agenda

Performance Measurement and Optimization:

Establish KPIs and metrics to measure the effectiveness of technology solutions and agile practices.
Use data-driven insights to enhance system performance, user experience, and business outcomes.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

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.

Director Expectations

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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