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The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..\nOR 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..\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 a Data Platform Engineer and help make data platforms easier to build, operate and consume.\nAs one of the first permanent engineers in a new platform team, you will create the AWS foundations that power BPL's enterprise data platform. You'll build reusable cloud services, automated delivery pipelines, security controls and operational tooling that allow engineering teams to move faster without compromising reliability, governance or resilience.\nWorking alongside platform, data and security engineers, you'll turn common infrastructure requirements into reusable platform capabilities, reducing complexity for delivery teams and enabling a consistent, secure engineering experience across the organisation.\nIf you're passionate about platform engineering, infrastructure as code, automation and creating paved roads that other teams love to use, this is an opportunity to shape both the platform and the engineering culture from the start.\nTo be successful as a Data Platform Engineer, you must have the following essential skills;\nTerraform Engineering & Infrastructure-as-Code Excellence\nDemonstrable expertise in:\nReusable module design\nTesting strategies (unit, integration and validation testing)\nState management\nPromotion between environments\nCode quality, versioning and maintainability\nPlatform engineering best practices\nCI/CD, Automation & GitOps\nExcellent experience of building and evolving infrastructure delivery pipelines, including:\nGitHub Actions\nAutomated testing\nSecurity controls in pipelines\nPolicy checks\nRelease automation\nGitOps operating models\nAWS Platform Engineering\nHands-on AWS engineering with a focus on:\nIAM and security patterns\nNetworking integration\nStorage and encryption\nObservability\nResilience and operational readiness\nAutomation and supportability\nSome other highly valued skills may include;\nDatabricks on AWS\nExperience with:\nWorkspace deployment\nDatabricks Terraform provider\nIdentity integration\nStorage integration\nNetwork connectivity patterns\nPlatform Engineering / Internal Developer Platforms\nExperience building:\nSelf-service capabilities\nGolden paths\nPaved roads\nReusable engineering patterns\nInternal platform products\nObservability, Reliability & Operational Engineering\nExperience with:\nMonitoring and alerting\nOperational telemetry\nIncident management\nResilience testing\nRecovery automation\nProduction support\nYou 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\nThe successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office-based presence expected.\nBarclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.\nIn April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.\nBarclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. 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