VP, Cash Settlements, Team Lead

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks VP, Cash Settlements, Team Lead in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Lead Cash Settlements team in development and deployment of micro-services and processors that adhere to open banking standards and bring in industry best architecture solutions.
• Work with business, technology, and designers to build new capabilities, platforms, features and improve existing capabilities and products.
• Work on large-scale, custom distributed systems using Java Enterprise, Spring framework and messaging systems.
• Drive designs towards scalable platforms, asynchronous, functional and reactive systems.
• Contribute individually to code base with generic, reusable components and drive innovation into product build within the team.
• Work on resolving business and engineering problems to provide customized solutions for end users and partners.
• Responsible for quality of software and help address any customer issues or incidents.
• Experience in Financial Services domain and Cash Settlements.
• Lead API team towards continuous improvement, automation and learning as team builds and runs large-scale, distributed and fault-tolerant systems.
• Drive development teams to solutions applying iterative methods to deliver software that enriches lives of end users while exhibiting high internal and external quality.
• Articulate proposed technical solutions in Global forums and provide well documented artifacts for development teams.
• Lead team in maintenance, issues resolution, support and performance optimization of the applications.
• Onboard new partners and integrate services with partner applications and also ensure cloud infrastructure scalability.
• Design and incorporate the latest service security technologies as per industry standards to secure sensitive data.
• Manage up to 5 direct reports, overseeing their work to ensure business deliverables are met (4 Senior Developers and 1 Developer).
• 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.

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.