What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp seeks Application Developer Lead, Assistant Vice President in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Lead and manage the analysis and development of technical solutions/applications, which includes collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify business needs, develop project plan, and oversee the implementation of solution that meets the expectation.
• Support on-going development and maintenance of the existing platforms.
• Interpret functional requirements and convert them into deployable production code with a high degree of independence.
• Develop solutions for both tactical and strategic objectives to meet business requirements.
• Produce implementation specifications according to business requirements to enable the team to deliver high quality solutions
• Train new joiners, provide ongoing feedbacks and mentor them to help improve their performance.
• Analyze the existing business application domain to identify functional gaps and provide viable solutions for closing the functional gaps.
• Produce system design documents and lead technical walk through.
• Gather and understand business functional requirements, technical specifications, design, architect, develop, deploy, and test the technologies solutions for the business.
• Efficiently transform data from various formats into SQL-compatible format, ensuring seamless integration and consumption by other systems.
• Partner with the team to craft, create, and launch cutting-edge financial applications that empower business to analyze and organize their offerings with a view to minimizing their credit exposure and liquidity risk in the portfolios.
• Methodically analyze, isolate root cause and resolve issues with precision and speed.
• May Telecommute.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will 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.