Banking and wealth management at enterprise scale with financial crime focus
Barclays operates a large-scale banking platform built on Python, Go, Java, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), with heavy adoption of identity and authentication tooling (Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock). The hiring surge is engineering-heavy (11 roles), concentrated at senior and manager levels, and concentrated in the UK — but the project and pain-point lists reveal the real operational priority: financial crime controls and compliance automation dominate active work (transaction monitoring, sanctions, AML, offboarding risk), signaling that engineering capacity is being directed toward regulatory remediation and process re-engineering rather than product expansion.
Barclays is a global banking and wealth management institution headquartered in London, serving personal, business, corporate, and investment clients. The company provides mortgages, deposit accounts, business lending, corporate and investment banking services, and wealth management. At scale (10,000+ employees globally), Barclays operates across multiple cloud platforms and maintains a complex technology estate spanning mobile applications (iOS, Android), backend services (Spring Boot, microservices architecture), and identity and access management (ForgeRock, Okta, Auth0). Current operational focus spans KPI development, financial crime risk frameworks, process optimization for capacity creation, and IT service management modernization.
Python, Go, Java, Spring Boot on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Identity layer: Okta, Auth0, ForgeRock. Mobile: iOS SDK, Android SDK, Swift, Kotlin. CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD.
Active projects include KPI and data analysis frameworks, financial crime risk and control programs, transaction monitoring, sanctions and AML compliance automation, and IT service management process optimization.
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