AI Lead Engineer

About the job

Join us as an AI Lead Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of the team, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. You'll be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts and business stakeholders. To be successful as an AI Lead Engineer, you should have experience with: • Proven work experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer or similar role • Extensive experience in Ful-stack software development, scripting and software design • Experience in developing software applications for scale on cloud (AWS or Azure or GCP). Fluent in Python or Java or GoLang programming language and frameworks. • Hands-on experience in GenAI and Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph/LangChain, CrewAI, Strands SDK, Google ADK etc. • Familiarity on working with MCP and A2A protocols. • Solid understanding of working with LLM Models, writing prompts efficiently that provides accurate context for LLM Agents. • Hands-on experience in developing and deploying Agentic AI solutions using cloud native services like AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry or GCP Vertex AI. • Strong understanding of AI implementation in software development and legacy code transformation. • Experience in developing APIs and integrating LLM models into software applications. • Ability to work on system design from ideation through completion with limited supervision. Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate ideas and results to stakeholders and leadership in a clear and concise manner. • Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery) • Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js) • Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design • Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies • Understanding of RESTful services and APIs • Knowledge of version control tools such as Git • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks • Should have excellent organizational and leadership skills. • Should be able to work independently.

Requirements

• Python
• Java
• GoLang
• GenAI
• Agentic AI frameworks
• API development
• Cloud deployment

Preferred Technologies

• Python
• Java
• GoLang
• GenAI
• Agentic AI frameworks
• API development
• Cloud deployment

About the company

At Barclays, we drive innovation and excellence, harnessing technology to revolutionise our digital offerings and ensure unparalleled customer experiences.