Job Description

Purpose of the role

The Director – Engineering Lead – Wealth Management is accountable for engineering leadership and delivery across Wealth Management platforms within PBWM. The role focuses on building and evolving high‑quality client and colleague experiences that support self‑directed and advised digital journeys, underpinned by scalable, secure and resilient digital platforms.

The role requires a strong understanding of the Wealth Management domain, including end‑to‑end investment journeys such as onboarding to investing, trading and execution, portfolio management and ongoing client servicing, advice and re-advice or Wealth Hub, to ensure platforms and experiences are fit for purpose in a regulated environment.

Operating as a senior member of the Wealth Management leadership team, the role provides deep engineering leadership while leading teams, shaping engineering standards, and partnering closely with Product, UX, Architecture, Operations and Risk to deliver predictable outcomes and sustained engineering excellence.

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.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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.

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.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and develop high‑performing engineering teams, fostering a strong culture of engineering excellence, collaboration and accountability across Wealth Management platforms.

• Own and execute the engineering roadmap for Wealth Management, aligning frontend, middleware and backend services to PBWM technology strategy and Wealth Management business and client objectives.

• Drive the design and delivery of modern, intuitive and scalable Wealth Management experiences across web and mobile channels, supported by robust API‑led and service‑based architectures.

• Provide senior technical leadership across engineering design and delivery, maintaining appropriate hands‑on oversight where needed to drive quality, resolve complexity or accelerate outcomes.

• Apply Wealth Management domain understanding to translate customer and colleague investment needs into secure, compliant and performant digital journeys.

• Define, govern and evolve engineering standards, shared components and platform capabilities to enable consistency, reuse and efficient delivery across Wealth Management initiatives.

• Ensure strong integration patterns, API design and non‑functional performance to support resilient, high‑volume investing and servicing journeys.

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX designers, Architects, Operations teams and Wealth Management SMEs to ensure strong functional, technical and experience alignment end‑to‑end.

• Drive continuous improvement across the Wealth Management engineering stack through platform modernisation, tooling improvements, automation and simplification.

• Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, acting as senior escalation point for complex delivery, technology and production issues.

• Ensure all engineering activities comply with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise‑Wide Risk Management Framework, and Barclays policies and standards, including security and operational resilience.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong engineering leadership experience across digital and full‑stack platforms in complex, regulated environments.

• Solid understanding of the Wealth Management domain, including customer investment journeys, trading, portfolio management and ongoing servicing.

• Broad experience with modern frontend technologies and practices, and API‑led, service‑based backend architectures.

• Proven experience shaping and governing shared engineering platforms, frameworks or capabilities at scale.

• Strong understanding of engineering quality, non‑functional requirements, security, performance and resilience considerations.

• Experience working across Agile delivery models and multi‑team, multi‑vendor organisational structures.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to provide credible challenge and assurance.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across senior technical and business audiences.

• Understanding of operational resilience, vulnerability management and production support within a regulated financial services environment.