Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP

Barclays•New York, NY

9d•$115,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as an Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support best-in-class equity, derivatives, risk, pricing and trade booking platforms. Your role will consist of effectively monitoring and maintaining the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolving complex technical issues, whilst minimizing disruption to operations.

Requirements

Experience in Equities Derivatives Trading in a related front-office application support role within investment banking
Considerable knowledge of supporting applications on Unix platforms and exposure to SQL scripting
Fundamental understanding of ITIL concepts and their implementation in the working environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys
Knowledge of ITRS Geneos, including deployment of netprobes and Gateway configuration
Bash/Perl scripting and/or Python/Java programming experience will be an added advantage but not mandatory

Responsibilities

Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients.
Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency.
Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.
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
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.