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Our client is a leading British bank. Join us at our client as a Product Engineer - M365 Unified Collaboration & Gen AI, where you will provide technical leadership within a team responsible for delivering innovative collaboration, productivity, and AI-enabled solutions across the organisation. This role requires a highly experienced engineering leader who can define technology strategy, establish best practices, and drive the successful delivery of complex enterprise-wide initiatives. You will be part of a team of engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. Working closely with senior stakeholders, architects, and business partners, you will translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions, ensuring alignment with our client' engineering standards, security requirements, and operational objectives. You will be accountable for technical decision-making, roadmap execution, resource prioritisation, and the ongoing development of team capability, while championing modern engineering practices and supporting the adoption of emerging technologies across the Microsoft ecosystem. To be successful as a Product Engineer - M365, you must have the following essential skills: Copilot, AI Agents & Power Platform Engineering Architecture and leading a team to design and deliver M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, AI agents, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and enterprise automation solutions. M365 Platform Expertise - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange Online, M365 Groups, and Entra ID, including integration and authentication. Security, Identity & Enterprise Controls - Experience implementing RBAC, DLP, environment management, governance controls, and secure operating models aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements. Some other highly valued skills may include: Microsoft Graph, PowerShell & Automation Experience in architecture and developing automation, integrations, and operational tooling using Microsoft Graph APIs, PowerShell, REST APIs, and scripting languages. Azure & Enterprise Integration - Experience designing and supporting integrations using Azure services and connecting Microsoft 365 solutions with enterprise and external platforms. Engineering Tooling & DevOps - Experience using GitHub/GitLab, Visual Studio, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, source control, and DevOps practices to support scalable and repeatable solution delivery. 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 Knutsford. 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. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the departments future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate our 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 our Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive the operating manual for how we behave. TPBN1_UKTJ

Job Summary We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to provide hands‑on engineering leadership across our data platform landscape, with a particular focus on Microsoft Fabric. You’ll lead and support a small team, helping us design, build and operate reliable, secure and high‑quality data solutions in Fabric while contributing to the development and improvement of our wider data platforms. • Lead and support a team of Data Engineers, setting clear technical standards and helping the team work effectively and efficiently., • Oversee the day‑to‑day operation of our data engineering services, including pipeline availability, data quality, incident resolution, change management and performance optimisation., • Manage data engineering deliverables, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality standards., • Identify and introduce modern technologies and techniques that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our data engineering processes., • Design, develop and implement automated solutions that reduce manual data processing and improve speed, accuracy, consistency and repeatability., • Collaborate with teams across Royal London, including the Group Data Office and IT, to ensure our data capabilities meet business needs and support the wider data strategy., • Embed effective risk management, operational controls and regulatory requirements throughout the team’s work., • Deep technical knowledge and a strong track record in data engineering, including delivering and operating large-scale data processing systems., • Experience of successfully leading development initiatives and supporting or managing technical teams, ideally within an agile delivery environment., • Strong practical experience of Microsoft Fabric with an understanding of how Fabric supports governed analytics and data engineering at scale., • A good understanding of data processing technologies and tools such as Apache Spark, data lakes, data warehousing and SQL databases., • Proficiency in Python and continuous integration and continuous delivery techniques, enabling change to be implemented consistently, securely and to a high standard., • Experience of cloud‑based data storage and processing platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure., • An understanding of data security and privacy requirements, supported by strong analytical and problem‑solving skills and an automation‑focused mindset., • Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder‑management skills, with the confidence to work independently and constructively challenge where needed. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspectives could be a great addition to our team. We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long‑term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as • 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, • up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, • private medical insurance We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background. Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role. Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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. 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 contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. • L – Listen and be authentic, • E – Energise and inspire, • A – Align across the enterprise, • D – Develop others 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. We're looking for an AI Platform Engineer to develop and optimise software platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performing capabilities that support millions of interactions every day. • Kubernetes platform engineering Good experience building, deploying and operating secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms., • Cloud engineering across AWS and/or Azure Practical experience designing, automating and supporting cloud infrastructure and services., • Experience deploying and operating AI agents or LLM-based services, ideally using Amazon Bedrock, including monitoring, governance, quality assurance and agentic workflows across the software delivery lifecycle., • OpenShift Experience building or operating platforms using OpenShift or a similar enterprise Kubernetes distribution., • Agent security, observability, and evaluation: Knowledge of AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks, identity, access control, monitoring and operational assurance., • Knowledge of agent evaluation, guardrails, identity, access control, monitoring and operational assurance., • CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and automation Experience building automated delivery pipelines, reusable platform capabilities and self-service deployment workflows., • Experience building self-service platform capabilities, reusable templates, golden paths and developer enablement tooling., • Experience monitoring and optimising AI workload consumption, platform usage and cloud costs., • 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. The location of your role is Knutsford/Glasgow/ Manchester Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Job Description 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. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escape breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. • L – Listen and be authentic, • E – Energise and inspire, • A – Align across the enterprise, • D – Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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. As a Senior AI Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and implementing intelligent software solutions that drive innovation, improve engineering productivity, and deliver measurable business value. You will work closely with AI Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Engineering colleagues to build scalable, secure, and production‑ready AI systems and applications. You will have strong knowledge of Generative AI, AI‑assisted code generation, automated testing, code review acceleration, agentic workflows, and development process optimisation. This role involves providing technical leadership, engineering expertise, and tooling oversight across the software delivery lifecycle, helping teams apply AI responsibly to modernise platforms, improve code quality, streamline delivery, and enhance developer experience across cloud platforms and technology products. To be successful as a Senior AI Software Engineer, you should possess: Programming and Software Engineering skills – Develop, integrate, and maintain AI‑enabled software solutions using languages such as Python, Java, R, and C++, applying strong software engineering principles, clean coding practices, API design, distributed computing, UNIX tooling, and scalable system design. Machine Learning and AI Fundamentals – Solid knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, model evaluation, prompt engineering, code transformation and refactoring, data transformation and schema conversion, automated test case generation, and responsible AI practices. Data Handling and Analysis experience – Ability to work with large and complex datasets, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, data quality assessment, vectorisation, embeddings, and the effective use of data science and machine learning libraries. AI Engineering and Product Delivery – Experience building AI‑powered capabilities into production applications, balancing experimentation with robust engineering, security, observability, maintainability, and customer impact. Additional skills include: Automation and Tooling Management – Expertise in tooling selection, developer productivity tooling, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD implementation, automated quality controls, and engineering workflow optimisation. Cloud and Deployment Knowledge – Familiarity with deploying AI models and AI‑enabled services using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, MLOps practices, cloud architecture, containerisation, model monitoring, and secure production deployment patterns. Problem‑Solving and Communication skills – Ability to translate complex business and engineering challenges into practical AI solutions, explain technical outcomes clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and support effective technical planning, implementation, and adoption. You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job‑specific technical skills. This role is based out of our Knutsford office. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Contract type: Permanent Location: Alderley Park Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Job Summary We’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to provide hands-on engineering leadership across our data platform landscape, with a particular focus on Microsoft Fabric. You’ll lead and support a small team, helping us design, build and operate reliable, secure and high-quality data solutions in Fabric while contributing to the development and improvement of our wider data platforms. • Lead and support a team of Data Engineers, setting clear technical standards and helping the team work effectively and efficiently., • Oversee the day-to-day operation of our data engineering services, including pipeline availability, data quality, incident resolution, change management and performance optimisation., • Manage data engineering deliverables, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget and to the required quality standards., • Identify and introduce modern technologies and techniques that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our data engineering processes., • Design, develop and implement automated solutions that reduce manual data processing and improve speed, accuracy, consistency and repeatability., • Collaborate with teams across Royal London, including the Group Data Office and IT, to ensure our data capabilities meet business needs and support the wider data strategy., • Embed effective risk management, operational controls and regulatory requirements throughout the team’s work., • Deep technical knowledge and a strong track record in data engineering, including delivering and operating large-scale data processing systems., • Experience of successfully leading development initiatives and supporting or managing technical teams, ideally within an agile delivery environment., • Strong practical experience of Microsoft Fabric with an understanding of how Fabric supports governed analytics and data engineering at scale., • A good understanding of data processing technologies and tools such as Apache Spark, data lakes, data warehousing and SQL databases., • Proficiency in Python and continuous integration and continuous delivery techniques, enabling change to be implemented consistently, securely and to a high standard., • Experience of cloud-based data storage and processing platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure., • An understanding of data security and privacy requirements, supported by strong analytical and problem-solving skills and an automation-focused mindset., • Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to work independently and constructively challenge where needed. We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background. #J-18808-Ljbffr

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Data Engineer to join Royal London’s Analytics Engineering Team within our Group Data & AI Office function. As a Data Engineer you will define, manage, and deliver the data, tools, and other technical assets to enable analytics, data science, and machine learning projects. These initiatives will create insights, answer key business questions, solve business problems, and support decision making at all levels of the organisation. Supporting the Senior Data Engineers in their role as technical lead for the team, helping to set and maintain technical standards. We value great communication skills, as you’ll be interacting with internal business areas as an SME for data, tooling and the technical practice around data engineering, analytics, data science and machine learning. The purpose of the Analytics Engineering team is to create business value through delivery of specific Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence projects and initiatives. These initiatives will create insights, answer key business questions, solve business problems, and support decision making at all levels of the organisation. This team supports the other teams within the Analytics & Insight function, providing them with a Data and Analytics service to support their insight activities. The team will also act as a Centre-of-Excellence in Analytics and Data Science, helping to take forward the Group’s capability in these areas and our ambition to become “Data Led”. This role is suited to an experienced Data Engineer who has worked on large enterprise data programmes, with advanced experience of Databricks and data analytics. • Source and prepare data for use in Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics, Data Science and Generative AI projects and initiatives., • Source, evaluate, interpret, model, and manage multiple disparate data sources., • Understand, own, and manage the team’s data – working with business, technology, and external partners., • Design, develop and manage the deployment of data pipelines in our cloud platforms (Databricks, primarily), and help the manage heritage on-premises (SQL Server primarily) pipelines and the migration of these., • Prototype solutions to explore business hypothesis in an agile and iterative way which supports a learn fast/fail fast methodology., • Productionise data pipelines created by the team through CI/CD so that they are available for consumption for the business, data science, and data visualisation teams, respectively., • Maintain knowledge of data engineering and machine learning engineering practices including keeping abreast of new developments and changes in the field., • Maintain knowledge of data-related technologies and practices., • Help to ensure that robust software engineering practices are adhered to by the team., • Advanced experience of cloud-based Data and Analytics platforms and technologies, Databricks knowledge is essential and some exposure to experience of Fabric and/or Snowflake would be advantageous., • Advanced experience in data engineering and application of data management design patterns., • Ideally will have experience in creating Genie Agents, configuring data assets for Natural Language Querying and using Metric Views to create semantic layers., • Experience of programming languages: SQL, python & pySpark etc., • Experience of development practices: the use of versioning tools such as GitHub, work tracking tools such as Azure DevOps, or equivalents., • A proven track record in working in cross-functional projects to a successful conclusion., • Experience of managing stakeholders., • A broad understanding of BI and analytics tools, such as PowerBI, Tableau & R., • Some understanding of Microsoft SQL Server technologies, such as T-SQL and SSIS, would be useful., • Knowledge of the technology side of Analytics and Data Science, including principles of software engineering. We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background #J-18808-Ljbffr

Shape the technology behind critical business services. We're looking for an AI Platform Engineer to develop and optimise software platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices to deliver resilient, scalable, and high-performing capabilities that support millions of interactions every day. To be successful as an AI Platform Engineer, you should have experience with: • Kubernetes platform engineering, • Good experience building, deploying and operating secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms., • Cloud engineering across AWS and/or Azure, • Practical experience designing, automating and supporting cloud infrastructure and services., • Experience deploying and operating AI agents or LLM-based services, ideally using Amazon Bedrock, including monitoring, governance, quality assurance and agentic workflows across the software delivery lifecycle., • OpenShift, • Experience building or operating platforms using OpenShift or a similar enterprise Kubernetes distribution., • Agent security, observability, and evaluation: Knowledge of AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks, identity, access control, monitoring and operational assurance., • Knowledge of agent evaluation, guardrails, identity, access control, monitoring and operational assurance., • CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and automation, • Experience building automated delivery pipelines, reusable platform capabilities and self-service deployment workflows., • Experience building self-service platform capabilities, reusable templates, golden paths and developer enablement tooling., • Experience monitoring and optimising AI workload consumption, platform usage and cloud costs. The location of your role is Knutsford/Glasgow/ Manchester To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. • 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 contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures., • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements., • 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions., • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment., • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda., • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does., • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business., • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies., • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions., • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes., • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

As a Senior AI Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and implementing intelligent software solutions that drive innovation, improve engineering productivity, and deliver measurable business value. You will work closely with AI Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Engineering colleagues to build scalable, secure, and production-ready AI systems and applications. • Programming and Software Engineering skills – Develop, integrate, and maintain AI-enabled software solutions using languages such as Python, Java, R, and C++, applying strong software engineering principles, clean coding practices, API design, distributed computing, UNIX tooling, and scalable system design., • Machine Learning and AI Fundamentals – Solid knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, model evaluation, prompt engineering, code transformation and refactoring, data transformation and schema conversion, automated test case generation, and responsible AI practices., • Data Handling and Analysis experience – Ability to work with large and complex datasets, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, data quality assessment, vectorisation, embeddings, and the effective use of data science and machine learning libraries., • AI Engineering and Product Delivery – Experience building AI-powered capabilities into production applications, balancing experimentation with robust engineering, security, observability, maintainability, and customer impact., • Automation and Tooling Management – Expertise in tooling selection, developer productivity tooling, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD implementation, automated quality controls, and engineering workflow optimisation., • Cloud and Deployment Knowledge – Familiarity with deploying AI models and AI-enabled services using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, MLOps practices, cloud architecture, containerisation, model monitoring, and secure production deployment patterns., • Problem-Solving and Communication skills – Ability to translate complex business and engineering challenges into practical AI solutions, explain technical outcomes clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and support effective technical planning, implementation, and adoption. You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is based out of our Knutsford office. To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. • 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 contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.., • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.., • 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.., • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment., • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda., • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does., • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business., • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies., • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions., • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes., • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer in the Event Fabric team, where you will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving a core enterprise platform that enables event-driven, cell-based architecture across the organisation. This role goes beyond application development. You will work on foundational platform capabilities that enable teams to reliably publish, consume, govern, and operate events at scale. You will bring well-developed hands-on engineering skills alongside a platform mindset, contributing to both technical delivery and engineering direction, while mentoring others and promoting modern engineering standards. To be successful as a Senior Software Engineer, you should have experience with: Designing, building, and operating Event Fabric capabilities that support asynchronous, loosely-coupled integration across distributed systems, including the delivery of production-grade platform components from proof-of-concept through to enterprise adoption. Contributing to event standards, patterns, and best practices, enabling teams across the organisation to build confidently on the platform. Making considered design choices that balance scalability, resilience, security, and developer experience. Close collaboration with product, architecture, and engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business and regulatory needs, alongside supporting and mentoring engineers and promoting high standards of code quality, testing, and operational readiness. Experience with Spring Boot and building production services using modern Java frameworks, together with a solid understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices, including automated testing, infrastructure as code, and deployment pipelines. Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and Kubernetes to design, build, and deploy reliable, cloud-native applications. Working knowledge of other cloud platforms, such as Azure and GCP. Some other highly valued skills may include: Hands-on Java engineering experience, building high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested systems, including the design and delivery of distributed systems using event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns. Practical experience with microservices and API design, with a clear understanding of service boundaries, integration contracts, and non-functional requirements such as resilience, scalability, observability, and failure handling. Experience working with event-streaming or messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka or equivalent), including concepts such as topics, partitions, schemas, consumer groups, and delivery semantics. Experience modelling data in NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB) within distributed, eventually consistent systems. Experience deploying and running services on cloud platforms (such as AWS), with awareness of security, networking, and cost considerations. 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 will be based in Knutsford or Northampton. 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. 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. TPBN1_UKTJ

Custodia is a UK based company, founded in 2017, with wider presence in North America, Europe and Asia both directly and through strategic partnerships. Our current key offering is the CC1 (Compliance Cloud One) service which records, stores and normalizes any type of communications data. This includes many common platforms such as phone email, SMS, phone calls, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp and WeChat amongst many others. This allows companies to communicate in a compliant manner, whilst driving greater data‑driven insights from the data they already have to store. Skills & Experience (Essential) • Proven experience in a customer‑facing Solution Architect or Technical Consultant role, • Strong experience producing customer‑facing HLDs and LLDs, • Experience designing SaaS or managed service solutions, • Understanding of regulated or compliance‑driven environments, • Excellent customer communication, workshop facilitation, and presentation skills, • Ability to balance customer requirements with product and service constraints Skills & Experience (Desirable) • Experience with compliance, archiving, or regulated data platforms, • Exposure to financial services or regulated communications environments, • Experience supporting technical pre‑sales or complex customer onboarding, • Familiarity with structured service delivery or professional services models, • Strong customer‑first mindset, • Confident, credible, and consultative in customer engagements, • Structured and detail‑oriented in design documentation, • Comfortable managing multiple customer designs concurrently Bachelor's Degree In: • Computer Science, • Software Engineering, • Information Systems, • Engineering, • Or a related technical field or relevant business experience Expected Knowledge • Cloud platforms (one or more of) AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, • System architecture and design: APIs, microservices, integrations, Data flows, scalability, security, • Infrastructure concepts: Networking, authentication, IAM, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), • Understanding of: DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Databases (SQL and NoSQL) Certifications • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, • Azure Solutions Architect Expert, • Google Professional Cloud Architect, • TOGAF (for enterprise-focused roles) 3–8+ years in roles such as, • Solutions Architect, • Sales Engineer / Pre‑Sales Engineer, • Technical Consultant, • Implementation Architect, • Nice‑to‑Have Qualifications, • Master’s degree (MBA or MSc), • Agile / Scrum certifications, • ITIL (for service-oriented environments), • Experience with RFPs, proposals, and SOWs, • Competitive salary, • Private Health and Dental Care (BUPA), • Free On‑Site Gym, • Free access to Udemy, • Employee Assistance Programme, • Free parking, • Smart Casual dress, • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement, • Dynamic and innovative work environment, • Opportunity to make your mark in a high-growth industry, • A beautiful office in the historic Cheshire town of Knutsford, with easily accessible public transport links to Manchester and Chester This role is on‑site, based at our office in Knutsford. Reports Into: Head of Service Performance Operations #J-18808-Ljbffr