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Windows Server Engineering Lead

Knutsford
Posted about 16 hours ago
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Purpose of the Role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

  • Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
  • Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
  • Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
  • Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
  • Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

  • 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, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counseling 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.
  • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are:
    • L – Listen and be authentic
    • E – Energise and inspire
    • A – Align across the enterprise
    • D – Develop others
  • For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their 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, organizational 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 organization's 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.

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Join Barclays as a Windows Server Engineering Lead

Play a pivotal role in advancing our Core Infrastructure Platform strategy. You will define and deliver the roadmap for the Windows Server platform, driving standardisation, automation, security, observability, and continuous service improvement across a large-scale enterprise estate. As part of the product leadership team, you will lead the adoption of new operating system technologies, champion infrastructure-as-code, and engineering best practices, and accelerate automation and self-service capabilities. Working closely with our cloud infrastructure and security teams, you will deliver resilient, scalable, and secure platform services that enable application teams to innovate at pace.

This role provides the opportunity to shape the future of a critical enterprise platform, driving engineering consistency, improving platform reliability and operational efficiency, and supporting our strategic objectives around simplification, modernisation, and risk reduction. You will bring together diverse engineering teams to deliver a highly automated, observable, and secure Windows Server platform that underpins the Bank's technology ecosystem.

Essential Skills

  • Windows Server platform engineering and lifecycle management.
  • Configuration management and infrastructure automation using Ansible and/or Chef.
  • Automation and scripting using PowerShell, Python, and YAML.

Highly Valued Skills

  • Security and compliance, including Windows Server hardening, vulnerability and patch management, and privileged access management technologies such as BeyondTrust Endpoint Privileged Management (EPM).
  • Observability and telemetry platforms, including Observe and/or Elastic.
  • Cloud and hybrid infrastructure experience across VMware, AWS, and Azure.

Assessment

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Location

This role is based in Knutsford or Glasgow.

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Skills

Windows Server Platform Engineering
Ansible
Chef
PowerShell
Python
YAML
Infrastructure Automation
Lifecycle Management
Windows Server Hardening
Vulnerability Management
Patch Management
BeyondTrust EPM
Observe
Elastic
VMware
Azure

Location

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

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