Development Lead

Development Lead

Glasgow

As a Barclays Development Lead, you will play an active part in driving the long-term development of the collateral management platform. This is an opportunity to have direct responsibility of delivering prioritized work items to support the business needs, provide leadership to the local Glasgow development team and build effective relationship with the global CMCV team and stakeholders.

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 complex change in an agile environment, good business knowledge of derivatives and team leadership experience

• Being responsible for improving and developing practices, code quality, testability and reliability

• Providing technical oversight to the development team to ensure solutions meet high quality, performance and reliability standards to guarantee seamless client experience

• Promoting continuous process improvements in development practices, code quality, testability & reliability

• Being responsible for incorporating knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices to inform solution design

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

• You will be responsible for developing and test resilient, scalable, and reusable services and APIs utilizing latest frameworks and libraries

What we're looking for:

• Experience architecting and developing large scale, distributed, service oriented, low latency, high volume, resilient, secure applications

• Experience in Object Oriented Languages (C#, Python), Micro Services, Distributed Caching, Messaging Platforms, RDBMS /NoSQL (MongoDB)

• Solid fundamentals in DevOps, CICD, Containers

• Proven experience leading multi-regional development teams in Agile environment

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Google, Azure)

• Financial services knowledge in Investment banking and collateral management domain

• Industry best practices in Architectural methodologies and standards

• Big data technology stack, data analytics, AI/ML experience

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

#LI-Hybrid

#infrastructure