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LeadPlatformEngineer

United Kingdom FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Lead Platform Engineer. Skills: MLOps Leadership, Tooling & Integration, Governance & Risk, Operational Excellence, Hands-On Delivery, Collaboration, Mentorship. Design, develop and improve software. Build and evolve model deployment pipelines, registries, and monitoring frameworks”

What You'll Achieve.

Provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues; Ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives; Achieve the overall business objectives

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Python engineering background, Deep experience with SageMaker, Databricks, MLflow, and CI/CD for ML, Proven track record in operationalizing ML models at scale, Knowledge of model governance, compliance, and risk management, Familiarity with feature stores, model registries, and observability tools (Langfuse, Observe)

Nice to Have

Kubernetes (EKS/on-prem), Airflow, Step Functions for orchestration, Databricks for data engineering and ML pipelines, MLflow for experiment tracking and model registry, SageMaker for training and deployment, Langfuse for evaluation and tracing

What You'll Do.

develop and improve software

Build and evolve model deployment pipelines

and monitoring frameworks

Implement and optimize SageMaker

and related orchestration tools

Ensure compliance with model governance

and AI safety standards

Drive reproducibility

and rollback strategies

Write production-grade Python code for automation

Coach engineers on best practices for ML lifecycle management and secure deployment

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers; Collaboration with peers; Partner with data scientists, quants, and infra teams to align MLOps capabilities with business needs

Communication Scope

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees; Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally; Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions; Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division

Process & Methodology

Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function

Full Job Description

# **Job Description** **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. **Director Expectations** * Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. * Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function. * Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. * Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence. * Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate. * Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall busine

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