Connectivity Software Engineer – VP

Barclays • New York, NY

2d • $180,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Connectivity Software Engineer – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support the cross-asset engineering team responsible for developing Exchange Connectivity applications supporting multiple business areas. These applications are built on a distributed Java platform designed to deliver low-latency, high-throughput message processing. Your role sits within a regionally distributed development team delivering both technical and business-driven solutions, with close collaboration across global teams including London and Prague.

Requirements

• Experience with Developing low-latency trading applications using Core Java and/or C++ in Linux environments
• Experience with Multithreading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, and performance-oriented system design
• Experience with Financial systems supporting trading, risk, middle office, or related services, with exposure to client or market connectivity and order management preferred
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers within a collaborative development environment
• Experience communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders across region
• Subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction (for individual contributor)
• 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 (for individual contributor)
• Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions (for individual contributor)
• 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.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
• Developing low-latency trading applications using Core Java and/or C++ in Linux environments
• Multithreading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, and performance-oriented system design
• Financial systems supporting trading, risk, middle office, or related services, with exposure to client or market connectivity and order management preferred
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers within a collaborative development environment
• Communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders across region

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of financial messaging protocols such as FIX, OUCH, or Millennium
• Experience with network engineering or platform engineering concepts
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and container technologies
• Exposure to ML or AI tools within engineering environments

Responsibilities

• Provision of high-quality support and problem-solving capabilities through various communication channels to resolve specific technology issues related to products and applications, ensuring that the relevant stakeholders are updated on progress.
• Development of reports and dashboards to visualise and communicate key findings and recommendations for improvement to team leads and relevant stakeholders.
• Management of user requests including password resets, software installation, access provisioning and equipment troubleshooting.
• Collection and maintenance of incidents, requests and resolutions to access trends, identify common issues, track services metrics.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing documentation of resolved cases for future reference and self-service opportunities.
• Execution of assessments to establish the severity and urgency of reported issues to support the prioritisation process.
• Development and provision of user training on applications, systems and equipment to enhance experience and self-sufficiency.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support the cross-asset engineering team responsible for developing Exchange Connectivity applications supporting multiple business areas.
• Develop applications on a distributed Java platform designed to deliver low-latency, high-throughput message processing.
• Deliver both technical and business-driven solutions, with close collaboration across global teams including London and Prague.
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers within a collaborative development environment.
• Communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders across region.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed