Java Tech Lead-VP
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: Angular, Docker, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Linux, SQL, Spring Boot, Unix
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About the role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications:
- Managing complex technology programs with strong delivery discipline, risk management, and dependency handling.
- Establishing engineering best practices for code quality, performance, security, reliability, and observability.
- Platform modernization, legacy transformation, and technical debt reduction at enterprise scale.
- DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational excellence practices to improve time‑to‑market.
- Modern technology stacks, including microservices, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
- Proven experience in Java (8+) with strong hands-on expertise including multithreading, advanced collections, concurrency, and performance-oriented programming.
- Spring Framework & Spring Boot - building robust backend services, REST APIs, and integration components.
- Hibernate/JPA - ORM, query tuning, caching, and high-volume data access patterns.
- SQL & PL/SQL proficiency - ability to develop stored procedures, packages, triggers, complex queries, and performance optimization.
- Message based integration using MQ - including producers/consumers, DLQ handling, and reliable message delivery patterns.
- Docker/containerization exposure - especially useful to scale and Spring Boot container builds.
- Event streaming technologies - (Kafka or similar) real time data processing.
- CI/CD tooling - Jenkins & Maven for building pipelines, release automation, and DevOps alignment.
- Unix/Linux expertise -including shell scripting, environment debugging, file handling, permissions.
- Unit testing & build/release engineering - ensuring quality, automation, and regression safe change deployment.
- Hands on design & build of distributed systems - scalability improvements, optimization of existing services, and performance tuning.
- Angular for basic UI troubleshooting or collaboration on full stack workflows.
- Chef cookbook scripting - automation, configuration management, and DevOps workflows.
- Observability tooling - ELK for reliability engineering and proactive monitoring.
- Strong communication & leadership to influence engineers and collaborate across teams.
- You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills, Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.
- The location of the role is Pune, IN
Qualifications
- Managing complex technology programs with strong delivery discipline, risk management, and dependency handling.
- Establishing engineering best practices for code quality, performance, security, reliability, and observability.
- Platform modernization, legacy transformation, and technical debt reduction at enterprise scale.
- DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational excellence practices to improve time‑to‑market.
- Modern technology stacks, including microservices, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
- Proven experience in Java (8+) with strong hands-on expertise including multithreading, advanced collections, concurrency, and performance-oriented programming.
- Spring Framework & Spring Boot - building robust backend services, REST APIs, and integration components.
- Hibernate/JPA ORM, query tuning, caching, and high-volume data access patterns.
- SQL & PL/SQL proficiency - ability to develop stored procedures, packages, triggers, complex queries, and performance optimization.
- Message based integration using MQ - including producers/consumers, DLQ handling, and reliable message delivery patterns.
- Docker/containerization exposure - especially useful to scale and Spring Boot container builds.
- Event streaming technologies - (Kafka or similar) real time data processing.
- CI/CD tooling Jenkins & Maven for building pipelines, release automation, and DevOps alignment.
- Unix/Linux expertise -including shell scripting, environment debugging, file handling, permissions.
- Unit testing & build/release engineering - ensuring quality, automation, and regression safe change deployment.
- Hands on design & build of distributed systems - scalability improvements, optimization of existing services, and performance tuning.
- Angular for basic UI troubleshooting or collaboration on full stack workflows.
- Chef cookbook scripting - automation, configuration management, and DevOps workflows.
- Observability tooling ELK for reliability engineering and proactive monitoring.
- Strong communication & leadership to influence engineers and collaborate across teams.
- You may be assessed on critical success skills such as Risk & Controls, Change & Transformation, Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking, Digital & Technology Skills
- Deep technical expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, AI‑driven development, and platform modernization.
- The location of the role is Pune, IN
Responsibilities
- 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.