Lead UI Developer – AVP

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Lead UI Developer – AVP in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Create intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces for web applications in accordance with federal design standards and best practices.

• Understand Payments domain, PAIN ISO messages to design the system accordingly.

• Review and design system security standards by implementing Digital signing process, analytics, Single-sign-on and fraud prevention.

• Lead and mentor a team of front-end developers, providing guidance on coding standards, best practices, and troubleshooting.

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of front-end development projects, including setting project milestones, managing timelines, and coordinating resources.

• Ensure all front-end development adheres to compliance standards and other relevant regulations.

• Work closely with UX/UI designers to transform wireframes and design mockups into functional web interfaces, ensuring a seamless and visually appealing user experience.

• Implement front-end optimization techniques to enhance the performance and loading times of web applications, considering potential constraints of government networks.

• Ensure compatibility across various browsers and platforms commonly used within federal agencies.

• Conduct thorough accessibility and usability testing and address any identified issues to guarantee a high level of user satisfaction and compliance with federal accessibility standards.

• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for front-end code, ensuring it is well-documented for future reference and potential audits.

• Collaborate with back-end developers, project managers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and contribute to a cohesive development process.

• Keep abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in front-end development, especially those relevant to the federal sector.

• Implement best practices using code review tools to ensure the quality and find early defects during development stage.

• Manage up to 3 direct reports of Cloud Engineer, UI front-end Developer and UX Developer, overseeing their work to ensure business deliverables are met timely and accurately.

• May telecommute.

Minimum Salary: $179,982 per year 

Maximum Salary: $197,980 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available. 

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. 

This position is eligible for an incentive award. 

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.