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Principal Engineer - Wealth Management

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Key information

Date live: 21/08/2026

Business Area: Private Bank Processing

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000102873

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It’s happening at Barclays.

Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?

Where will you be located?

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Purpose of the Role

The Principal Engineer – Solution Design & Architecture is responsible for providing senior technical leadership across Wealth Management engineering teams, ensuring solutions are well designed, scalable, secure and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.

Operating across multiple products, platforms and initiatives, the role acts as the bridge between Engineering and Architecture, helping teams translate business requirements and architectural direction into practical, deliverable solutions.

The role provides hands-on technical leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, supporting engineering teams with solution design, technical decision making, design assurance and complex problem solving. Working closely with Architects, Engineering Directors, Product and Delivery teams, the Principal Engineer promotes engineering consistency, design quality and technical excellence across the Wealth Management technology estate.

Key Accountabilities

Solution Design & Technical Leadership

  • Lead the design of complex technology solutions across Wealth Management platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives, engineering standards and architectural principles.
  • Partner with engineering teams during discovery, design and delivery phases to develop scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance on solution design decisions, helping teams navigate complexity, trade-offs and implementation challenges.
  • Review and challenge solution designs to ensure appropriate consideration of scalability, resilience, security, performance, operability and maintainability.
  • Support engineering teams in translating architectural patterns and strategic technology direction into practical implementation approaches.

Architecture Alignment & Governance

  • Act as the primary interface between Engineering and Architecture, ensuring effective collaboration and alignment across initiatives.
  • Work closely with Architects to communicate architectural direction, standards and technology strategies across Wealth Management engineering teams.
  • Contribute to architecture reviews, design governance and technology decision forums.
  • Identify architectural risks, design gaps and technical dependencies early, helping teams address issues before they impact delivery.
  • Promote the adoption of enterprise standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns and shared platform capabilities.

Cross-Team Engineering Enablement

  • Support multiple engineering teams with design guidance, technical assurance and solution optimisation.
  • Drive consistency of engineering approaches, technology selection and solution patterns across Wealth Management.
  • Facilitate technical collaboration across teams to encourage reuse, reduce duplication and improve overall technology coherence.
  • Provide leadership on the most complex technical challenges, production issues and cross-domain initiatives.

Engineering Excellence

  • Champion engineering best practices across design, development, testing, deployment and operational support.
  • Drive improvements in solution quality, technical debt management, observability, resilience and operational readiness.
  • Promote modern engineering approaches including API-led design, cloud-native architectures, automation and platform engineering.
  • Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate consideration for security, regulatory compliance and operational resilience requirements.

Technical Capability Development

  • Mentor Engineering Leads, Senior Engineers and Software Engineers in solution design and architectural thinking.
  • Foster stronger engineering understanding of architecture principles, design patterns and technology strategy.
  • Support the development of technical communities and design forums across Wealth Management.

Essential Skills / Experience

  • Significant experience as a Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer, Solution Architect or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
  • Strong background in solution design and software engineering across complex enterprise platforms.
  • Demonstrable experience designing scalable, secure and resilient distributed systems.
  • Deep understanding of modern engineering practices, including APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud platforms and DevSecOps.
  • Ability to balance architectural principles with practical delivery considerations and engineering constraints.
  • Experience working closely with Architecture functions, contributing to design governance and technology strategy.
  • Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including security, resilience, performance, observability and operational support.
  • Proven ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams without direct management authority.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of engaging effectively with Engineers, Architects, Product and business stakeholders.

Experience operating within regulated financial services environments and understanding associated risk, security and compliance requirements.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This role may be subject to enhanced governance arrangements. If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.

Further information on these requirements will be provided at a later stage of the process.

Who succeeds in
Tech at Barclays?

For a career with us, you need to be prepared to take big steps forward, curious to face the challenges ahead, and driven to focus on the outcomes. We need people with the Barclays mindset to make it happen here.

Qualities we look for:motivator, supporter, connector, driver, communicator, transformer, maker, observer

What you'll get in return

Competitive holiday allowance
Life assurance
Private medical care
Pension contribution

Our technology

Supporting our 48 million customers and clients worldwide takes a lot of forward thinking. It means harnessing technology to support the economy. It means making a difference to people’s lives. And it requires the maintenance and development of a global, technological infrastructure. At Barclays, technology helps us keep transactions moving, manages data, and protects our customers. Join a world where your work creates unique moments of impact. Make it happen here.

This is Barclays Glasgow

Barclays Glasgow is the engine of the Corporate and Investment Bank, and Shared Technology, delivering vital services to clients across the world. With c.5,500 talented people in a whole range of roles, the work we do touches millions of lives every day.

Our campus is a safe environment for neuro-diverse colleagues or anyone who, from time to time, may need calm, controlled spaces.

We work hard to make our Glasgow campus a centre of citizenship, community integration and social impact. We make a real difference.

Our campus features excellent facilities such as our Fitness Suite, fitness classes, an on-site GP, a bicycle store and so much more.

Connect with your colleagues. Join one of many clubs and societies like our working parents club, or catch up with your colleagues at our rooftop bar, The Beacon.

This is Barclays Glasgow

Barclays Glasgow is the engine of the Corporate and Investment Bank, and Shared Technology, delivering vital services to clients across the world. With c.5,500 talented people in a whole range of roles, the work we do touches millions of lives every day.

Designed for diversity

Our campus is a safe environment for neuro-diverse colleagues or anyone who, from time to time, may need calm, controlled spaces.

At the heart of the community

We work hard to make our Glasgow campus a centre of citizenship, community integration and social impact. We make a real difference.

Focus on health and wellbeing

Our campus features excellent facilities such as our Fitness Suite, fitness classes, an on-site GP, a bicycle store and so much more.

Connect with your colleagues

Connect with your colleagues. Join one of many clubs and societies like our working parents club, or catch up with your colleagues at our rooftop bar, The Beacon.

Barclays

Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience. And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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Make it happen at Barclays

Our teams are always evolving - creating new solutions that make a real difference for customers and clients. Watch the video to hear how our colleagues describe their careers at Barclays and imagine where yours could take you.

Application process

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Your application

We’ll ask for information about you, your CV and cover letter.

2

Your assessment

Covering your behaviours and ability at work.

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Your interview

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Next step

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