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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.\nAssistant Vice President Expectations\nTo advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.\nLead 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\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. 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 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.\nConsult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.\nIdentify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.\nTake ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.\nPerform 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.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.\nEngage 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.\nCommunicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.\nInfluence or convince stakeholders 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 Real-Time Data Engineer at Barclays where you will help drive the evolution of our data engineering capabilities across real-time and streaming platforms. You will use modern engineering practices and scalable data technologies to build robust, secure, and high-performing data pipelines that support critical business and client outcomes.\nThis role is ideal for someone with strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building real-time and large-scale data pipelines. You will work on systems that ingest, transform, and distribute high-volume event data with a strong focus on reliability, observability, performance, and operational resilience.\nTo be successful as a Software Engineer you must have the following essential skills:\nStrong hands-on experience building data pipelines and streaming solutions using Python, PySpark, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar technologies.\nSolid understanding of distributed data processing concepts, including event ordering, partitioning, consumer groups, stateful processing, and delivery guarantees.\nExperience working with real-time data platforms and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink, or related streaming frameworks.\nExperience with version control and engineering workflows using Git and GitLab, including support for CI/CD and controlled release processes.\nExperience operating production-grade, low-latency data systems with a focus on resilience, observability, recovery, and data quality.\nSome other highly valued skills may include:\nExperience with Databricks or similar modern data engineering platforms.\nProficiency in Spark SQL or similar technologies for large-scale data transformation and querying.\nGood working knowledge of Java, Scala, or other languages commonly used in distributed data engineering environments.\nUnderstanding of real-time and streaming data processing concepts, including replay, idempotency, backpressure, and recovery.\nExperience in financial services, payments, trading, or other regulated environments where correctness, control, and auditability are critical.\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.\nThis role is located in our Glasgow office.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6325,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Credit Cards","Wealth Management","Lending","Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T10:42:11Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:8","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T19:22:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-software-engineer-11","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/barclays-software-engineer-11.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T19:22:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}