Engineering Director – CCX Digital Channels

• Lead and develop high‑performing digital engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and engineering excellence.
• Own and execute the engineering roadmap for digital channels, aligning client and colleague experience outcomes with enterprise digital and technology strategies.
• Drive modern digital channel engineering using web and mobile technologies, including Angular, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and backend‑for‑frontend patterns supported by scalable APIs and microservices.
• Maintain significant hands‑on engagement to provide technical leadership through architecture design, framework review, code review and design reviews
• Design and evolve shared digital platforms, frameworks and reusable components to enable consistency, accessibility and accelerated delivery across channels and business units.
• Lead delivery of responsive, resilient and secure web and mobile experiences, ensuring strong performance, observability and user experience standards.
• Work closely with Product Owners, UX/UI teams, Architects, Platform teams and Operations to ensure digital experience alignment across organizational boundaries.
• Drive effective integration between frontend channels and backend platforms using well‑governed APIs and experience‑led design patterns.
• Be accountable for delivery outcomes across quality, time, cost and risk, acting as senior escalation point for complex digital delivery and production issues.
• Ensure all digital engineering activities comply with regulatory requirements, Enterprise‑Wide Risk Management Framework and Barclays policies and standards.

• Strong engineering leadership experience delivering large‑scale digital channels in complex, regulated environments.
• Deep hands‑on experience with web technologies such as Angular, React, JavaScript/TypeScript and modern UI engineering practices.
• Proven experience delivering mobile applications and mobile‑first or responsive web experiences.
• Strong experience designing backend‑for‑frontend layers and consuming API‑based and microservices platforms.
• Experience building shared digital platforms, frameworks or component libraries used across multiple teams or business units.
• Ability to lead in a federated operating model, working effectively across organizational and technology boundaries.
• Strong understanding of performance, security, accessibility and resilience considerations for digital channels.
• Ability to balance hands‑on technical contribution with leadership, delivery accountability and stakeholder management.
• Highly effective communicator across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience working across Agile delivery models and multi‑team environments.

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