Leads a 150–200-person engineering organization delivering credit card and payments platforms in regulated enterprise environments. Oversees modernization, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, APIs, DevSecOps, mainframe integration, mobile and digital channels, resilience, operational governance, and scaled Agile delivery. Drives engineering excellence, technical debt management, reliability, incident recovery, and transformation across customer-facing journeys.
Job Description
This role requires deep technology leadership across large-scale engineering organizations, with strong expertise in credit cards technology, modern architecture, cloud platforms, engineering excellence, and resilient delivery in regulated enterprise environments. This role will require managing multi-journey feature teams with an overall team size of 150 to 200.
Core Technology Leadership
- Extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations delivering enterprise-grade platforms and customer journeys.
- Strong experience operating in complex distributed systems and highly regulated environments.
- Proven experience leading engineering modernization and transformation initiatives and leading large teams working in scaled agile.
Credit Card & Payments Domain Experience
- Strong experience in one or more areas:
- Credit card issuing platforms
- Card lifecycle management
- Authorization and transaction processing
- Billing and statements
- Disputes and chargebacks
- Fraud and risk integration
- Merchant and payment processing
- Rewards and loyalty systems
- Digital card servicing
- Instalment lending / BNPL capabilities
Architecture & Engineering
- Strong understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- API-first engineering
- Event-driven architecture
- Domain-driven design
- Service-oriented architecture
- Cell-based or platform engineering models
- Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
- Strong understanding of system integration patterns and enterprise integration challenges.
API & Integration Experience
- Experience building and managing enterprise APIs using:
- REST
- Async/event-driven integrations
- API gateways
- Service mesh concepts
- Experience with:
- Kafka
- Istio
- Tyk
- Experience integrating with legacy and third-party platforms.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Experience with cloud-native engineering practices.
- Strong exposure to:
- Amazon Web Services
- Kubernetes
- Containerization and orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code
- Platform automation
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
DevSecOps & Engineering Excellence
- Strong experience implementing:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated testing strategies
- Secure software development lifecycle
- DevSecOps practices
- Engineering quality controls
- Experience with tools such as:
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Terraform
Mainframe & Modernization
- Experience working with legacy modernization programs.
- Understanding of:
- Mainframe integration patterns
- API externalization strategies
- Progressive decomposition approaches
- Legacy platform simplification
- Experience modernizing customer-facing capabilities from legacy core systems.
Mobile & Digital Engineering
- Understanding of digital channel engineering including:
- Mobile applications
- Web platforms
- Experience APIs
- Customer-facing journeys
- Exposure to:
- React Native
- Android
- iOS
Data & Operational Resilience
- Experience with:
- High availability systems
- Disaster recovery and resilience engineering
- Operational governance
- Production support models
- Incident management and service recovery
- Strong focus on engineering metrics, reliability, and operational stability.
Agile & Delivery
- Experience leading engineering teams in:
- Agile
- SAFe
- Product-aligned delivery models
- Strong understanding of:
- Value stream delivery
- Engineering productivity
- Incremental delivery models
- Technical debt management
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Barclays Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
Pune, Maharashtra , India, 411014
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