Data Platform Engineer for payments acceptance

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients. Barclays and Brookfield Asset Management are partnering to grow and transform the business, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand.

• Build AWS foundations for BPL’s enterprise data platform
• Create reusable cloud services, automated delivery pipelines, security controls, and operational tooling
• Turn common infrastructure requirements into reusable platform capabilities
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions
• Guide engineering teams on best practices and foster technical excellence
• Contribute to strategic planning and align technical decisions with business goals
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Identify and incorporate new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices
• Advise stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross-functional impacts
• Assess and mitigate risks, strengthen controls, and support governance
• Analyze complex alternatives, define problems, and develop innovative solutions using research
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to achieve business objectives

• Expertise in Terraform engineering, reusable module design, testing strategies, state management, environment promotion, and code quality
• Experience with platform engineering best practices
• Experience building infrastructure delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions, automated testing, pipeline security controls, policy checks, release automation, and GitOps
• Hands-on AWS engineering experience with IAM and security patterns, networking integration, storage and encryption, observability, resilience, operational readiness, automation, and supportability
• Experience with risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills
• **Nice to have:** Databricks on AWS, Workspace deployment, Databricks Terraform provider, identity integration, storage integration, network connectivity patterns, self-service capabilities, golden paths, paved roads, reusable engineering patterns, internal platform products, monitoring and alerting, operational telemetry, incident management, resilience testing, recovery automation, production support

• Hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office-based presence expected
• Barclays announced an approximately £400m investment in the new business, mostly during its first three years
• Performance-linked incentives
• A standalone entity is planned over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand and serving as Barclays’ sole payments acceptance services provider for a minimum of ten years