Equity Derivatives Senior Developer

Barclays•New York, NY

3d•$189,592 - $195,000•Hybrid

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 developing detailed technical designs and solutions in the equity derivatives exotics (structured products) area of trade booking and lifecycle domain and implementing them. The role requires working with Development Managers to understand and contribute to the system architecture, ensuring development aligns with strategy and the overall roadmap. It also involves interacting with the Equity derivatives exotic Trading desk and Sales teams to understand complex problems related to trade capture, lifecycle management, and exotic aspects of equity derivatives structured products, translating business problems into technical solutions. The position requires making decisions regarding code, design, and test coverage, proposing alternative solutions with pros and cons, and serving as the technical contact for Run-the-Bank (RTB) for issues related to the availability or degradation of the Atlas Trade service in production, providing full support for issue investigation and timely resolution. This is a hybrid role.

Requirements

Design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for Barclays customers and colleagues.
Interaction with Equity derivatives exotic Trading desk and Sales teams to understand the complex problems related to the trade capture, lifecycle management and exotic aspects of equity derivatives structured products and the analytical skills required to translate the business problems into technical solutions.
Make decisions with respect to code, design and test coverage.
Propose alternative solutions for various problems and be able to come up with the pros and cons of the solution.
Technical contact for Run-the-Bank (RTB) for issues related to the availability or degradation of Atlas Trade service in production.
Provide full support to RTB for issue investigation and timely resolution.

Nice To Haves

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 a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: 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. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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 detailed technical design and solutions in the equity derivatives exotics (structured products) area of trade booking and lifecycle domain and implement them.
Work with Development Managers to understand and contribute to the system architecture and ensure that the development is in line with the strategy and the overall roadmap.
Design, develop and improve software, utilizing various engineering methodologies, that provide business, platform, and technology capabilities for Barclays customers and colleagues.
Interaction with Equity derivatives exotic Trading desk and Sales teams to understand the complex problems related to the trade capture, lifecycle management and exotic aspects of equity derivatives structured products and the analytical skills required to translate the business problems into technical solutions.
Make decisions with respect to code, design and test coverage.
Propose alternative solutions for various problems and be able to come up with the pros and cons of the solution.
Technical contact for Run-the-Bank (RTB) for issues related to the availability or degradation of Atlas Trade service in production.
Provide full support to RTB for issue investigation and timely resolution.