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Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.\nCross-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.\nCollaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.\nStay 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.\nAdherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.\nImplementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.\nVice President Expectations\nTo 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..\nIf 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..\nIf 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. 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They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..\nAdvise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.\nManage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.\nDemonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.\nDemonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.\nCreate 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.\nAdopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.\nSeek 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.\nAll 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.\nJoin Us as an AI Platform Engineer - Shape the Future of AI at Barclays.\nWe’re excited to launch a groundbreaking initiative at Barclays - building a next-generation platform that empowers front-office developers (Quants and Strats) to create high-performance, AI-driven applications. As an AI Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling robust platform components that enable advanced AI/ML workloads across both on-premises and cloud environments.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role where your expertise will directly influence how we deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions. You’ll collaborate with diverse teams, solve complex challenges, and help shape the technical direction of a platform that will transform how AI is leveraged in financial services.\nTo be successful as an AI Platform Engineer at this level, you should have experience with:\nProven experience in Python engineering, with a focus on backend and infrastructure tooling.\nDeep knowledge of AWS services (IAM, KMS, CloudFormation, API Gateway, S3, Lambda, ECS, Glue, Step Functions, MSK, EKS, Bedrock).\nExperience scaling platforms for AI/ML workloads and integrating generative AI tooling.\nUnderstanding of secure software development, cloud cost optimization, and platform observability.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrated capability to guide engineering teams and influence technical strategy. 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