Senior Software Engineer Permissions

Barclays Bank Plc

Senior Software Engineer Permissions

Salary Not Specified

Barclays Bank Plc, Over Peover, Cheshire East

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 1 week ago, 15 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 0f73413286ed472e938c0c54ef7ee979

Full Job Description

As a Barclays Senior Software Engineer Permissions, you will support in accelerating a new digital platform capability, transforming and modernising our digital estate to build a market-leading digital offering with customer experience at its heart. This is an exciting and key role, partnering with business aligned engineering and product teams, to ensure a collaborative team culture is at the heart of what we do. Our Team empowers innovation, underpinned by engineering excellence and a culture of teamwork, learning and continuous improvement., At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, 'anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

  • Helping in the design, development and implementation of a centralised secure, scalable and efficient Permissions platform

  • Assisting in the creation and maintenance of the technical roadmap for the evolution of the group wide Permissions platform

  • Coaching, working with and facilitating colleagues and engineers to design, build and maintain the platform, following agile software development principles

  • Ensuring the highest levels of platform security and compliance are adhered to

  • Providing feedback and action activities to mature and improve operations and processes within the team and more broadly across the function

  • Engaging with partners across the bank and contributing to digital journeys innovation using the platform's Permissions capabilities, demonstrating inner source culture

  • Demonstrating hands-on complex problem solving abilities through creation of innovative solutions using multiple components and development techniques

  • Collaborating on both strategic and technical decisions to advance the Permissions platform and scale its impact, value, and capabilities

    Solid Experience in full stack development web and mobile front-end technologies such as React, Java, APIs & microservices, PostgreSQL, data structures, workflow

  • Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering, automation, observability, incident management, resilience, disaster recovery, high availability, documentation

  • Policy Management experience (XACML, Open Policy Agent, OPA Gateways, OPA debugging and testing, Rego policy language, Styra DAS, Permit.io)

  • Knowledge on Implementation of Role Based Access Control and Policy Based Access Control (Attribute Based Access Control) systems in Mandatory Access, Discretionary Access scenarios


  • Skills that will help you in the role:
  • Experience in DevSecOps, secure coding best practices, defensive programming, security testing, data security, network security, cloud security, security compliance and regulations

  • Experience in Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Terraform and Containerisation, Docker, Kubernetes

  • Knowledge of AWS and Azure cloud component and services integration (RDS / Azure DB, S3 / Azure Blob)

  • Familiarity with Workflow Tools: IBM BAW, jBPM and CI/CD: GitLab, Jenkins, Chef,Git

    Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted., You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.


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