Date live: 05/22/2026

Business Area: Customer Digital and Data

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-(phone hidden)

Join us as a Platform Engineering Manager - APIs and Gateway at Barclays, where you will be responsible for realizing strategic platform capabilities for our Enterprise API Gateway ecosystem. You will lead the delivery and evolution of Apigee X on Google Cloud Platform and subsequently Apigee Hybrid deployed on AWS, driving a large‑scale platform transformation from Akana to Apigee.

To be a successful Platform Engineering Manager - APIs and Gateway, you should have experience with :

- Designing, implementing, and operating API Gateway platforms (Apigee X / Apigee Hybrid or equivalent) in large-scale, enterprise environments.
- Public cloud platforms, with robust hands-on experience in GCP and working knowledge of AWS, including networking, security, and cloud-native services.
- Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, along with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Leading engineering delivery using Agile methodologies, partnering effectively with Product Owners to manage backlogs, priorities, and roadmaps, Gitlab.

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued :

- Experience leading platform migrations or transformations (e.g., Akana to Apigee, legacy to cloud-native platforms).
- Strong understanding of API security, governance, lifecycle management, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Proven ability to provide technical thought leadership, mentor engineers, and drive standardisation across federated teams.
- Experience working in regulated or financial services environments with strong focus on risk, compliance, and operational resilience, Harness.

You may be assessed on 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.

This role is based in Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

- 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.

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, 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. 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 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..
- 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 busine

📌 Platform Engineering Manager - Apis and Gateway (Pune)
🏢 Barclays
📍 Pune