Securitized Products Trading Floor Support Lead

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

3d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Securitized Products Trading Floor Support Lead is responsible for the production support function for the Securitized Products Trading and Financing businesses. This role ensures the stability, availability, and performance of critical front-office trading platforms supporting loans, mortgages, structured products, and securitized asset trading activities. Acting as the primary technology liaison between Trading, Sales, Operations, Risk, and Development teams, you will drive incident resolution, operational excellence, risk mitigation, and platform enhancements in a fast-paced trading floor environment. This role requires experience supporting both front-office trading applications and backend systems, with the ability to demonstrate by example during high-severity incidents and business-critical events.

Requirements

Fixed income and securitized products markets (Loans, RMBS, CMBS, ABS, whole loan trading)
Supporting front-office trading systems and electronic trading platforms
Deep understanding of trade lifecycle, pricing, risk, settlements, regulatory reporting
Solid experience with Linux/Unix/Windows systems and systems engineering fundamentals
Experience with client-server model architecture and scalability knowledge monitoring high traffic by distributing load across multiple backend servers

Nice To Haves

Good evaluative, problem-solving, and communication abilities
Experience working in a high-pressure trading floor environment
Excellent incident management and good stakeholder communication

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.
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.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also 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.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to 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.
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will 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. They will 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.
Ensure the stability, availability, and performance of critical front-office trading platforms supporting loans, mortgages, structured products, and securitized asset trading activities.
Drive incident resolution, operational excellence, risk mitigation, and platform enhancements in a fast-paced trading floor environment.
Demonstrate by example during high-severity incidents and business-critical events.
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.