Senior Risk & Pricing Technology Developer

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Senior Risk & Pricing Technology Developer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions):

• Design and develop software and programs for Pricing, Booking and RFQ applications for Credit or Equity Derivatives domain.

• Leverage advanced knowledge of Market Data, Request for Quote (RFQ), Firm Offerings and FINRA reporting interfaces in either Credit or Equity Derivatives domain.

• Develop highly multithreaded low latency, high throughput applications and process dealing with large volumes of real time financial market data in JAVA, Python and Bash.

• Design and innovate products and new applications and systems using technologies like Solace, Grid gain caching, lock free algorithms, Kerberos authentication, CSM protocols etc.

• Working on FIX protocol and other market data vendor technologies like Bloomberg API, Reuters/LSEG EFA/UPA API.

• Collaborate with Business stakeholders, other engineers, programmers to design pricing and risk management systems for Equities Derivatives domain and to obtain information on technical project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

• Modify existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, and to improve its performance.

• Perform design and code review submitted by other colleagues in the team.

• Perform testing and maintenance of existing and new systems and components as part of the risk and pricing infrastructure for equity derivatives.

• Perform software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

• Analyze and design databases within an application area, and store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

• Provide support and troubleshoot application issues raised by business users, by analyzing the root causes and providing remediation measures.

Minimum Salary: $160,805.00 per year

Maximum Salary: $178,000.00 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other 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.