Software Engineering Manager Job at Barclays (Knutsford)

Software Engineering Manager

Barclays

Location:
United Kingdom , Knutsford

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

Join us as a Software Engineering Manager in our growing Engineering organisation and help shape the software products that power the bank’s most critical platforms. You’ll be part of a modern, product‑focused engineering team responsible for building and running the software that underpins all of our core infrastructure services. Bringing your development experience and passion for quality engineering, you’ll help us strengthen our software engineering and DevOps practices as we continue to evolve our platform capabilities. This is an opportunity to contribute to high‑impact technology, grow your skills, and build a long‑term career in an environment that values innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.

Job Responsibility:

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
To 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.
If 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.
If 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.
OR 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.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create 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.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek 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.
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.

Requirements:

Leading teams of software engineers, ensuring code quality and helping people grow
Collaboration with product managers, designers, and working with senior stakeholders – experience across all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Highly proficient in multiple areas of development practices such as programming, test and behavioural-driven design, testing, continuous deployment, and Agile development
Experience of professional software engineering in an enterprise environment, including Scrum, Agile, test-oriented design, or infrastructure test tooling
Design and implement high-quality, scalable, and resilient software solutions
Technical curiosity and evolving best quality, observability, and security
You 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.

What we offer:

Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 20, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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