AVP Prime Quant Developer

Join us as a Quant developer at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with , ,as well as job-specific technical skills.

About Liquid Financing

Liquid Financing provides Prime Brokerage Services to our clients and it is a global business that provides a range of prime brokerage, execution, financing and clearing services including cross-asset class offerings for financing, clearing and execution services.

Overall purpose of role:

Quant Developers, working within the SM&D team, help to build and automate models and write reusable frameworks to underpin our business activities. This role will form part of a new team that is getting set up to assist our Prime Services business. The successful candidate is expected to engage in product development, hands on modelling and writing production quality framework code.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a quantitative discipline such as Maths, Finance, Machine Learning/AI, Econometrics, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry or Operations Research.
• Deep understanding and high level production quality coding experience in python
• Familiarity with RestAPI frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
• Knowledge of advanced data structures and basic algorithms development
• Good understanding of Pandas, numpy, scipy and matplotlib
• Extensive practical knowledge of statistical methodologies and experience with handling and analysing large amounts of data
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Highly analytical and numerate with exceptional problem solving abilities.

This role is based in Mumbai.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your  application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time

Purpose of the role

To maintain the smooth and efficient operation of our trading desks, providing operational support and expertise to traders, sales professionals, and other key stakeholders, helping them maximize their productivity and minimize disruptions and handling administrative tasks, and providing market information and research. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of immediate and efficient technical support to traders and sales professionals on the trading desks, resolving hardware, software, and network-related issues to ensure uninterrupted trading activities.
• Coordination of trade execution by liaising with traders, clients, and other internal teams to ensure smooth transactions.
• Maintenance and updating of trade records, transaction logs, and client databases accurately.
• Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitoring of market data and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
• Operational tasks such as processing trades, confirming orders, and resolving trade discrepancies.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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.