Prime Risk Tech Lead

Join us as a Prime Risk Tech Lead. At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future, we create it. As a Prime Risk Tech Lead you will support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

To be a successful Prime Risk Tech Lead, you should have experience with:

• Capital Markets Domain Expertise & Business Acumen (10+ years Financial Services/Capital Markets) 
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technology solutions 
  • Understanding of front office trading operations and risk management principles 
• Delivery Leadership & Technology Architecture Understanding 
  • Proven track record leading technology delivery in complex, regulated environments 
  • Experience managing platform modernization and legacy system transformation initiatives 
  • Conceptual understanding of enterprise technology stacks e.g. AWS, Data warehouse, Data Lake, Qlik sense, Python, PL-SQL to effectively lead technical teams and make informed delivery decisions.
  • Awareness of programming paradigms (Python, SQL/PL-SQL) sufficient to evaluate technical proposals, review architecture decisions, and engage meaningfully with engineering teams 
  • Ability to drive execution across distributed, global teams  
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management 
  • Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and scale specialized engineering teams 
  • Exceptional communication skills translating technical concepts into business value 
  • Cross-functional collaboration across business, operations, and technology organizations 

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued

• Prior experience in Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, or Margin operations
• Familiarity with Agile and traditional project management methodologies
• Development technologies (Python scripting, SQL querying, Spark processing)
• Cloud services architectureunderstanding of S3 for data storage, Lambda for serverless computing, Glue for ETL, Athena for analytics, CloudWatch for monitoring

This role is based in 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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.