Application Developer AVP

Barclays•New York, NY

5d•$189,592 - $199,592•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to design, develop, and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. This involves the development and delivery of high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration with business objectives. Collaboration with peers, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing are essential. Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities to foster technical excellence and growth is also a key aspect. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data, along with the implementation of effective unit testing practices, are crucial for ensuring secure and reliable software solutions.

Requirements

Production experience integrating FIX engines and managing session states in real-time institutional trading environments.
Experience with Solace-based messaging layers (or equivalent middleware messaging platform such as TIBCO EMS, IBM MQ, or Apache Kafka) including setup of queues, bridges, and subscriptions across production and test environments.
Experience identifying and resolving production issues using tools like SSH port forwarding and Kibana/Elasticsearch (Splunk, Datadog or equivalent).
Experience with DevOps frameworks such as Chef (Ansible, Terraform or equivalent) for writing infrastructure as a code recipe.
Experience managing release pipelines for mission-critical trading systems (TeamCity, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent).
Experience with job scheduling and hotfix rollout with rollback planning.
Experience coordinating with global development teams.
Experience building and supporting global trading flows including inter-region and inter-desk order routing.
Experience implementing unit and integration tests.

Nice To Haves

Assistant Vice President Expectations: 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.
Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others).
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
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 (sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience).
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Responsibilities

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.
Develop and support a high-throughput, low-latency, Java-based monolithic OMS used in U.S. equities and options trading under regulatory constraints.
Debug production issues in sub-millisecond latency environments during live trading hours.
Implement financial messaging protocols and flows for client and broker connectivity across multiple trading venues, supporting order routing and post-trade capture, with production experience integrating FIX engines and managing session states in real-time institutional trading environments.
Maintain Solace-based messaging layers (or equivalent middleware messaging platform such as TIBCO EMS, IBM MQ, or Apache Kafka) including setup of queues, bridges, and subscriptions across production and test environments for high availability and resilience in high-frequency trading systems.
Identify and resolve production issues using tools like SSH port forwarding and Kibana/Elasticsearch (Splunk, Datadog or equivalent), triaging live trading incidents in coordination with traders, compliance, and business stakeholders.
Automate configuration and deployment of observability tools using DevOps frameworks such as Chef (Ansible, Terraform or equivalent) for writing infrastructure as a code recipe used in automating deployment and environment configuration of trading system infrastructure.
Manage release pipelines for mission-critical trading systems (TeamCity, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent) and system tasks including job scheduling and hotfix rollout with rollback planning.
Coordinate with global development teams to ensure aligned deployments and operational continuity across regions in 24/7 institutional trading operations.
Build and support global trading flows including inter-region and inter-desk order routing driven by liquidity access, regulatory obligations, and multi-venue coverage.
Prioritize test-first development by implementing unit and integration tests to ensure production-ready code quality.