Custody Senior Developer – VP

Barclays • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Custody Senior Developer – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will lead the delivery of key components of the Custody technology stack, translating complex business requirements into high-quality, scalable solutions. You will contribute to the design and build of Foundational, Consolidated, and Business Data Products, working on complex technical challenges alongside engineers, business analysts, and senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring good analytical capability, technical ownership, and influence across the development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Advanced C#/.NET development with good object-oriented design principles
• Microsoft SQL Server development, including complex query optimization and performance tuning
• Production support and troubleshooting within high-volume, mission-critical environments
• Version control systems such as Git and automated testing practices
• Modern DevOps and cloud technologies including containerization, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab), and enterprise scheduling tools such as Autosys
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• Good stakeholder management and influencing capabilities
• Clear communication skills with the ability to engage across all organizational levels
• Acting as a subject matter expert and technical lead within the development team
• Knowledge of Investment Banking and Equity Finance domains
• Considerable analytical problem-solving and decision-making abilities

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Drive technical excellence, foster a culture of innovation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
• 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.
• 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 behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• Act as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking 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.
• Lead the delivery of key components of the Custody technology stack, translating complex business requirements into high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Contribute to the design and build of Foundational, Consolidated, and Business Data Products, working on complex technical challenges alongside engineers, business analysts, and senior stakeholders.

Benefits

• Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

What This Job Offers

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