Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

8d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead is a Vice President role at Barclays focused on designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions for complex business problems. The role works with stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver solutions that balance technology risk with business outcomes, using consistent modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. The position designs and scales cloud solutions, including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, and orchestration intended to shorten cycle times. It supports enterprise-grade governance from the outset and builds agents for AWS EKS using Anthropic large language models with privacy and controls built in. The role also contributes to secure, resilient cloud platforms and business-critical applications, including cloud operations, cost optimization, and adoption of automation and AI-driven operational capabilities. This role is based in Barclays’ Whippany, New Jersey office. The posted base salary range is $170,000–$230,000, and the position is eligible for an incentive award.

Requirements

Experience designing, building, and supporting secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments.
Experience with AWS services and technologies including IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFormation, EKS, Istio, OPA, and Kubernetes.
Experience implementing infrastructure provisioning through IaC principles, reusable CloudFormation templates, and standardized deployment patterns.
Experience leading cloud platform operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, and security compliance activities.
Experience supporting high availability and operational resilience for business-critical applications.
Experience driving cloud cost optimization and DevOps practices, including analyzing consumption patterns and optimizing AWS spend.
Ability to partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders and provide technical leadership.
Ability to assess and manage risks and controls, and to contribute to governance processes.
Ability to communicate with and advise stakeholders, including senior management, on functional and cross-functional matters.
Ability to develop solutions through sophisticated analytical and interpretive thinking and to evaluate complex alternatives.
Ability to build trusting partnerships and use influencing and negotiating skills to accomplish business objectives.

Nice To Haves

Willingness to learn about business processes, current techniques, and new programming-language paradigms.
Product and stakeholder savvy, including translating banker needs into clear problem statements, influencing roadmaps, and explaining AWS EKS and AI concepts clearly.
Practical LLMOps and evaluation knowledge, including prompt design, automated faithfulness and relevance evaluations, red-teaming, and guardrail or content-safety patterns.
Cost and performance optimization experience, including tracking token spend and latency, running A/B experiments, tuning model routing, and making telemetry-driven decisions.
Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or Google ADK; MCP tool integration; vector stores such as OpenSearch; and event-driven APIs.
Experience with agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, orchestration, Anthropic LLMs, and enterprise governance.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems in collaboration with stakeholders.
Design and develop evolving product solutions aligned with business requirements, modern software engineering practices, and automated delivery tooling; identify and implement appropriate technologies and platforms.
Apply workload placement strategies and use cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless computing, and containerization.
Design solutions using security principles, including defense in depth and blast-radius reduction, to meet resiliency expectations.
Balance risks and controls while delivering agreed business and technology value; adopt standard solutions where suitable and contribute to their evolution when needed.
Support operational teams with fault finding and performance troubleshooting using available tooling.
Assess solution impacts on risk, capacity, and cost, including estimates of project changes and ongoing run costs.
Develop architecture inputs and design artifacts for architecture, privacy, security, records-management, and other governance processes.
Design, build, and support secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multi-account environments using services and technologies including IAM, VPC, Route 53, CloudFormation, EKS, Istio, OPA, and Kubernetes.
Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using IaC principles, reusable CloudFormation templates, and standardized deployment patterns.
Lead cloud platform operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, and security compliance to support high availability and operational resilience.
Analyze cloud consumption and implement cost optimization and DevOps practices across enterprise AWS environments.
Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver cloud solutions, provide technical leadership, and enable adoption of cloud, automation, and AI-driven operational capabilities.
Architect and ship agentic workflows, RAG, tool-calling, and orchestration, and raise quality and adoption with enterprise-grade governance.
Advise stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks, strengthen controls, and support governance objectives.
Contribute to strategy, recommend change, and drive continuous improvement; where applicable, plan resources and budgets and manage policies and processes.
For individual-contributor responsibilities, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi-year assignments, identify needed specialist input, and train, guide, and coach less-experienced specialists.
Build and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder partnerships, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve business objectives.
Demonstrate Barclays Values and Mindset, and apply the relevant leadership behaviours where the role has people-leadership responsibilities.