Senior Developer

Join us as a Senior Developer at Barclays, where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions.  

To be successful as a Senior Developer, you should have experience with:

• Understand the various phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Undertake impact assessment and estimation of change requests against applications / products within domain.
• Liaise with stakeholders for any requirement clarification to take that to closure.
• Responsible for design, development and local test, and adherence to all coding standards.
• Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind.
• Report progress against assigned activities in a timely manner.
• Co-ordinate and communicate with colleagues to encourage ideas and build on the suggestions of others.
• Be supportive within the team, both technically and culturally, to help achieve all targets set within sprint plans.
• Identify own development needs and seek opportunities to address these needs through guidance, coaching and formal training.
• Collaborate with other component design and build teams, ensuring that end-to-end system design is followed.
• Enlist others in working towards the organisation goals takes prompt and effective action to rectify problems within the team.
• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
• Raise risks and issues in a timely manner, and complete associate actions in required timeframe.
• Must have experience of working in an IT project environment preferably in card acquiring domain in banking and financial sector.
• Must have Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Mainframe. Good experience of Unit testing and system testing.
• Mainframe based languages - COBOL, JCL, VSAM and CICS.
• Mainframe based tools used - TWS, REXX, XPEDITER, CA-View, SORT.
• Hands on knowledge on FileAid in Mainframe.
• Hands on knowledge of version control tool Endevor.
• Hands on knowledge on RDBMS DB2 preferred.
• Knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem Management process.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Ability to articulate and compare alternatives approaches.
• Ability to draw upon professional concepts to collaborate with others to carry out assigned duties.
• Ability to recognize problems related to team’s objectives / deliveries and to apply creativity / judgment to professional, technical, or operational problems.
• Should be proficient in architecture and related frameworks.
• Ability to understand team’s mission and objectives and align person objectives, goals, and aspirations to the team’s objectives.
• Ability to coordinate activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable team members.
• Ability to understand and influence high level technical design of design of components.
• Ability to understand, implement and influence security concepts and solutions of components.
• Analytical ability including root cause identification and pro-active design improvement.
• Communicating, both written or orally, with both business and technology stakeholders at peer and adjacent organizational levels.

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.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.