Sr Application Developer

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•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 leading the UI design, development, and delivery of various regulatory and mandatory growth initiatives in an Agile operating model within Risk, Finance, and Treasury (RFT). The role requires building reusable code and libraries, ensuring code meets company and department standards, and designing/developing REST APIs to support business functionalities. It also involves identifying dependencies, suggesting infrastructure improvements, providing support during testing phases, and collaborating with product owners and scrum masters to prioritize backlogs. Optimization for speed, performance, and scalability, along with configuring hand-ins and developing validations, are key aspects. The position may involve telecommuting.

Requirements

Utilising various engineering methodologies
Utilising industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers
Collaboration with peers
Participate in code reviews
Adherence to secure coding practices
Implementation of effective unit testing practices
Agile operating model experience
Design and develop REST API’s
Identify dependencies, changes in infrastructure and suggest improvements
Provide support during System Integration Testing (SIT), Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test phases.
Collaborate with the Product Owners and Scrum Master in prioritizing the Sprint backlog and contributing to the Product backlog grooming.
Work closely with the Team Product Owner to ensure non-functional requirements, technical debt work items are appropriately prioritized.
Optimize applications for maximum speed, performance and scalability
Support regression testing.
Configure hand ins and develop functionality to support the configuration template.
Develop generic and custom validations for validating offline control templates.

Nice To Haves

Lead a team performing complex tasks
Set objectives and coach employees
Appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
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
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

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.
Lead the UI design, development and delivery of various regulatory and mandatory growth initiatives in an Agile operating model within Risk, Finance and Treasury (RFT).
Build reusable code and libraries, ensuring code written meets the predefined company and department standards.
Design and develop REST API’s to work with the UI application to support the various business functionalities.
Identify dependencies, changes in infrastructure and suggest improvements by working with Tech Leads, RTB and DevOps.
Provide support during System Integration Testing (SIT), Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test phases.
Collaborate with the Product Owners and Scrum Master in prioritizing the Sprint backlog and contributing to the Product backlog grooming.
Work closely with the Team Product Owner to ensure non-functional requirements, technical debt work items are appropriately prioritized.
Optimize applications for maximum speed, performance and scalability and support regression testing.
Configure hand ins and develop functionality to support the configuration template.
Develop generic and custom validations for validating offline control templates.