Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• 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.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.

Join us a Developer - Collateral Strategy where you have to design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

To be successful a Developer - Collateral Strategy, where you should have experience with:                                                                                                        

• Deliver on critical business priorities while evolving platform towards it’s strategic vision

• Basic Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Mathematics or Scientific discipline

• Work closely with product managers, end users, business analysts to understand business objectives and key success measures

• Partner with technology teams to design and architect solutions that align to Barclays Architecture, Data and Security standards, while utilizing best-of-breed technology

• Develop and test resilient, scalable, and reusable services and APIs utilizing latest frameworks and libraries while adhering to development standards

• Implement automated build, test and deployment pipelines utilizing latest DevOps tools

• Proactively create and manage relevant application documentation

• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and conduct sprint demos for stakeholders

• Proactively manage application health and platform stabililty by reviewing technical debt, operational risks and vulnerabilities

• Define metrics and instrument measurement and monitoring of production environment to ensure that application meet Service Level Objectives

• Work alongside Run the Bank support teams to ensure health of production environment and address issues

• Evaluate software and vendors and conduct proof-of-concept

• The developer needs to keep the stakeholders in the loop and provide timely updates / escalations.

• Work with Dev lead to design appropriate technical solutions

• Interact with Business analysts to understand and validate business requirements

• Interact with and support Operations to ensure deliverables

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• 5-7 years of hands on experience in full stack enterprise level application development using object oriented languages (C#, python)

• UI Frameworks like Angular, Cloud: AWS; Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Server-less architecture.

• 5+ years of experience in popular wed development frameworks (Angular, React, JQuery)

• 5+ years of RDBMS experience (SQL server preferred)

• Hands-on experience on cloud technologies such as AWS

• 3+ years of experience working with cloud enabled micro-service development

• Hands on experience working with various messaging framework (Kafka, MQ, Solace)

• Strong familiarity with source code management and continuous integration/delivery processes and tools like Git, , Jenkins, Chef, SonarQube and other DevSecOps tools in the cloud environment such as AWS.

• Working exposure with Agile methodologies (Scrum & SAFe) is a must.

• Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying high-volume, multi-tiered, distributed business critical applications.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Pune.