As a Software Engineer - AVP , Senior Agentic UI Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of next-generation AI-powered banking experiences across React Native, React, Android, and iOS platforms while driving the evolution of Agent-to-UI (A2UI) experiences that enable AI agents to dynamically surface, personalise and orchestrate customer interactions. Working on the Agentic UI ecosystem, you will help shape how customers interact with intelligent assistants, personalised journeys, conversational experiences, and AI-driven recommendations within the Barclays mobile and web applications.
You will work at the intersection of Mobile/Web Engineering, Agentic AI, A2UI, Conversational Experiences and Customer Journey Design, building experiences that help customers complete banking tasks through personalised assistance, proactive insights and intelligent interactions.
You will be responsible for building scalable, accessible, and reusable UI capabilities that integrate seamlessly with backend AI services and enterprise platforms. This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and close collaboration with Product, Design, AI, and Platform teams to deliver innovative customer experiences.
You will:
- Support platform capabilities across multiple business domains, enabling product teams to deliver consistent and scalable customer experiences.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of frontend platform capabilities, from architecture and design through implementation, adoption and continuous improvement across React Native, React, Android and iOS.
- Act as a bridge between platform engineering and product teams, ensuring alignment on standards, frameworks, technical strategy and delivery requirements.
- Enable engineering productivity through reusable components, shared frameworks, tooling, automation and best practices, accelerating feature development across digital channels.
- Support continuous platform evolution, identifying opportunities to improve developer experience, release processes, observability and operational resilience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of Agentic UI experiences across mobile and web channels.
- Design and implement A2UI capabilities that enable AI agents to dynamically render and adapt customer experiences based on intent, context and journey state.
- Design and implement reusable React, React Native, Android, and iOS components that enable AI-powered customer journeys across APP and Web.
- Support the end-to-end delivery lifecycle from discovery and design through to production deployment and optimisation.
- Partner with Product, UX, Accessibility and Architecture teams to create intuitive and trusted customer experiences.
- Contribute to platform strategy, engineering standards, and innovation initiatives within the Agentic UI space.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, security, accessibility and governance standards.
- React Native, React, Android & iOS Expertise, Strong experience building scalable, high-performance cross-platform mobile and web applications.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining reusable frameworks, shared libraries, A2UI capabilities, UI component systems and developer tooling, enabling AI agents to dynamically orchestrate customer experiences across platforms.
- Mobile and Web Architecture & Engineering Excellence
Strong understanding of architecture, accessibility, performance optimisation, CI/CD, and platform governance component systems and developer tooling, enabling AI agents to dynamically orchestrate customer experiences across platforms. - Mobile and Web Architecture & Engineering Excellence Strong understanding of architecture, accessibility, performance optimisation, CI/CD, and platform governance.
Desired skills:
- AI/ML & Agentic AI Exposure
- Experience with Python for automation, prototyping, tooling, or AI/ML integrations.
- Cloud & AI Platform Exposure
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The role is based out of Pune.
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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
