Markets Technology Senior Application Support Engineer

Join Barclays as a Markets Technology Application Senior Support Engineer, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital landscape—driving innovation, stability, and excellence. In this role, you will provide essential support for our Rates applications, ensuring the resilience of our critical technology infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for proactively monitoring systems, resolving complex technical issues, and minimising disruptions to our operations, all while contributing to a high-performing global team.

This is a full-time onsite role, requiring presence in the office 5 days per week. The team covers core hours between 08:00–19:00 CET through a rotating shift pattern (early, middle, and late shifts). Occasional weekend work (a few times per year) may be required to support activities such as Business Continuity Management testing.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Proven experience providing application support for time-critical systems, ideally within a fast-paced trading floor environment.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues effectively.
• A solid understanding of core IT infrastructure components, including Linux or Windows Server OS, MS SQL or Oracle databases, networks, load balancers, and storage systems.
• A collaborative mindset, with experience supporting business stakeholders and working seamlessly with technical teams across multiple geographies.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience providing application support within the financial services industry.
• A strong understanding of trading business concepts, end-to-end business processes, and workflows.
• Foundational knowledge of ITIL principles and practices.

You may be assessed on the 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 successful candidate will be based in Paris.

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. 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.