Senior Technical Delivery Manager

Senior Technical Delivery Manager

London

As a Barclays Senior Technical Delivery Manager, you will drive platform modernization of FX Cash and Derivatives for Prime Brokerage clients platform for enhancing stability, scalability and efficiency of our technical stack. This is an opportunity to be working closely with Prime Derivatives business, Product Development, and Operations partners to drive and execute on transformational initiatives that help realize aggressive client growth targets.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Delivering on critical business priorities while evolving platform towards its strategic vision

• Collaborating with product managers, end users, and business users to understand business objectives and key success measures.

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

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

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

• Creating and managing proactively relevant application documentation

• Managing proactively the application of health and platform stability by reviewing technical debt, operational risks, and vulnerabilities

What we're looking for:

• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology

• Experience architecting, designing, and developing applications coupled with a hands-on experience of debugging and optimizing code

• Solid skills with C++ on unix

• Solid skills with RDBMS experience in Oracle or similar (e.g., MS-SQL, PostgreSQL)

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Related work experience within a tier-1 investment banking environment

• Experience in Investment Banking domain like FX Derivatives, Prime Brokerage

• Experience in Java / J2EE, Micro Services, at least one messaging platform (MQ/ TIBCO/ Kafka/ Solace)

• Distributed Cache experience (Ignite, Redis, Gemfire, etc.) and with Cloud platforms (AWS, Google, etc.) NoSQL (e.g., MongoDb, Cassandra, ElasticSearch)

Where will you be working?

In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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