Rates Trading Front Office Java Developer

Rates Trade Processing Senior Dev Lead
Glasgow

As a Barclays Rates Trade Processing Senior Dev Lead, it will be your accountability to work on specific strategic programs within the front office. You will ensure that that you provide technical design advice, robust solutions and an excellent stakeholder experience across the teams. This is an exciting opportunity to work with teams globally and be accountable also for mentoring junior members of the team. 

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
•    Working as part of a 5 to 6-person development scrum in Glasgow 
•    Developing high-quality, resilient and robust solutions to FO & MO requirements
•    Improving application performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
•    Contributing valuable input into technical design specifications
•    Working with development scrums globally
•    Providing excellent stakeholder management as required

What we’re looking for:
•    Excellent Core Java skills 
•    Excellent knowledge of Multithreading and Spring
•    Robust knowledge of CI and unit test frameworks
•    In depth experience with XML and related technologies 

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Good technical experience with databases and SQL
•    Familiarity with SCM tools like bitbucket and build tools like teamcity
•    Experience with java profilers (e.g., Yourkit or similar) would be an advantage
•    Experience of Agile development process

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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