Assistant Vice President, Developer

What will you be doing?

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

1.    Design and develop exotics analytics price and strategic trade booking platform for Structured Notes, and contribute to the overall system design, architecture and development on risk platform, booking tools for exotic products and price streaming platforms.
2.    Enhance systems to facilitate Regulatory requirements (FRTB IM/SSA, CCAR, Libor cessation).
3.    Manage stakeholders by working directly with front office trading, operations and other business users to collect requirements and provide regular status updates and support.
4.    Reduce technical debt by introducing and adopting best practices in software development and collaborating with the team to ensure consistent adoption of best practices and migrating off legacy technical stacks.
5.    Compute cost optimizations by working on cost reduction initiatives to reduce grid compute costs by moving to efficient valuation models and distributing across HPC/AWS clusters.
6.    Lead the migration of stochastic valuation models, moving away from Black Scholes to better capture volatility risk exposure.
7.    Develop strategic UI interfaces using HTML5/React for trade booking/risk management platform.
8.    Integrate with OpenFin platform, defining data taxonomies for Macro/Rates business and seamlessly interact with other applications (RFQ activity, internal margins, Credit exposures, Axes etc.) in the space.
9.    Enhance the server-side stack, moving to microservices stack using Vert.X, SpringBoot. service discovery via Zookeeper, asynchronous messaging on Confluent Kafka and deployments using Kubernetes/Docker containers.
10.    Work with Front Office traders to provide risk/trade/static/market data via APIs to support their development on Python Notebooks.
11.    May telecommute.

This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.

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.