Join us as a KDB developer to create and maintain KDB business facing functionality and infrastructure used for research and analytics in the credit business. The role will require the authoring of APIs and visualization layers for products utilized by the SM&D team and sales and trading teams in our businesses in Markets, as well as contributing to core components used more widely across the firm. This includes writing and maintaining high-quality code, working to enhance the optimization framework, and also to maintain all the model and feeds that are required for production trading.
The successful candidate is expected to engage in product development, client support, and production of high-quality content for client and trader education.
Accountabilities:
- Provide best in class service to Barclays clients.
- Work with respective trading desk and technology to ensure implementation of business logic is as designed and fit for purpose.
- Build and maintain back testing and simulation framework.
- Design frameworks and functionality for the development and delivery of analytics.
- Implementation, testing, and productionisation.
- Understand existing bank processes.
- Proactively identify problems and issues and resolve them.
- Provide required support in a timely manner and to high quality.
- Participate in team peer reviews of code, modelling, and testing.
- Engage in team knowledge sharing and presentations.
Essential skills:
- Experience with software development and extensive work with Q/KDB & Python.
- Experience with handling and analyzing large amounts of tick data.
- Experience in building production quality infrastructure is essential.
- Experience with big data analysis & visualization.
- Good written and verbal communication skills to a wide audience are essential.
- Experience in e-trading development is desirable.
- PhD or master's degree in a quantitative, mathematical, or scientific discipline is preferred.
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Python and Java languages.
- Understanding of any of rates, credit, and FX markets.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in our London location.
Purpose of the role:
To design, develop, and evolve trading, risk management, and other platforms that facilitate trading and regulatory objectives within the investment banking domain.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance trading platforms, risk systems, and applications catering to the needs of traders and market participants.
- Collaborate with traders, strategists, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technological solutions.
- Implement new features, enhancements, and functionalities on trading platforms to improve performance, reliability, and user experience.
- Stay updated on technological advancements, industry trends, and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement in trading platforms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including business-aligned SM&D teams, strats, compliance, and IT to address system issues and implement solutions.
Vice President Expectations:
- 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning 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, 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.
- For an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational 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 organization 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 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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