Prime Risk Senior Developer - VP

Barclays • New York, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Prime Risk Senior Developer - VP, where you will be part of the Liquid Financing Technology team. The team is currently investing in building a modern, client risk and PnL management platform—a unified, cross-asset risk and PnL management solution that delivers real-time analytics, AI enabled workflows, and reporting for front-office users. This platform will enable intraday exposure monitoring, margin and limits forecasting, and advanced stress-testing capabilities along with client PnL & returns forecasting. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the core risk & PnL analytics integration within the platform, driving the roadmap for analytics, valuation inputs, scenarios, sensitivities, stress frameworks, and model integrations while collaborating closely with front office desk, quant, and core risking platform teams in alignment with market’s risk architecture framework and guidelines.

Requirements

• Experience in front office, quant or risk technology teams within investment banking or similar financial institution
• Experience with derivative pricing and Greeks in either Equities, Rates or Credit asset classes
• Proven experience with Python and Spark for distributed and real time data processing leveraging Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms
• Proven experience with AWS services such as S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and RDS for scalable compute, containerized deployment of risk engines and real-time services
• Considerable quantitative reasoning and software design skills.
• Deep understanding of SDLC practices including CI/CD, Dev Ops & Engineering practices

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with data warehouses, data lakes, and distributed data systems
• Experience with prime brokerage / prime finance risk platforms or FO/MO risk tools (e.g., real‑time exposure, VaR/stress, PFE, or x‑asset risk engines)
• Knowledge on Regulatory risk frameworks (Basel, FRTB, PRA, Fed)

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of 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 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.
• 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.
• Driving the core risk & PnL analytics integration within the platform.
• Driving the roadmap for analytics, valuation inputs, scenarios, sensitivities, stress frameworks, and model integrations.
• Collaborating closely with front office desk, quant, and core risking platform teams in alignment with market’s risk architecture framework and guidelines.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include 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: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees