Electronic Trading Reliability Engineer

Barclays•New York, NY

20d

About The Position

Purpose of the role To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them. Embark on a transformative journey as an Electronic Trading Reliability Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you’ll support and enhance electronic trading platforms that underpin critical business operations across the firm. Working within a small, collaborative team, you’ll help ensure the stability and performance of fast-moving, low-latency trading systems, while also contributing to modernization initiatives shaping the next generation of our electronic trading infrastructure.

Requirements

Supporting electronic trading systems, including exchange gateways, trading algorithms, dark pools, and market data platforms, using industry protocols such as FIX across asset classes including Equities, Rates, Futures, or FX
Troubleshooting and supporting complex trading environments using Linux platforms, scripting, monitoring tools (e.g., ITRS), and observability practices
Developing and maintaining automation scripts to improve operational efficiency, system stability, and incident response

Nice To Haves

Programming experience in Java, Python, or C++ to extend automation capabilities and strengthen application reliability
Working with KDB to manage, analyze, and troubleshoot high-volume time-series trading data
Leveraging SRE and monitoring tooling such as Grafana or Elastic to enhance system observability and operational resilience

Responsibilities

Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
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.
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
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.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.