Quantitative Developer

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, development, and maintenance of high-performance trading platforms, risk systems, and applications catering to the needs of traders and market participants.
• Collaboration with traders, strategists, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technological solutions.
• Implementation of 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.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams including business aligned SM&D teams, strats, compliance, and IT to address system issues and implement solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• To 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment 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, 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 will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational 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 organisation 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 the business 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 in order 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.

Join us at Barclays as a Quant Developer in Analytics Platform team within the wider Core Strats and Quantitative Analytics (QA) group. The Analytics Platform team oversees the development standards for QA, and drives the efficiency and simplification of the technological landscape. This includes providing the interface and orchestration layer to in-house analytics libraries.

 The role focuses on development of the Analytic Service, a major initiative aimed at redesigning APIs to improve how analytic libraries interact with IT systems and end-users. The candidate will collaborate with multiple teams, including IT, QA Asset classes, and Front Office, to ensure alignment with the Analytics Platform strategic vision.

To be successful as a Quantitative Developer, you must have the following essential skills:

• Strong python skills, encompassing the full lifecycle of design, development, testing, release and maintenance.
• Good C++ coding skills.  The role will involve making incremental changes to existing in-house libraries in modern C++.
• The role will involve liaising with end-users, working with colleagues in a geographically distributed team, and collaboration with quant and technical teams.  Hence strong communications skills are required.
• Experience in financial application development, such as pricing and risk systems, ideally in the Rates space.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Fundamentals of how Rates instruments such as bonds, swaps and swaptions are priced and risked.
• Experience of building and maintaining REST APIs.
• Development experience on Windows and Linux platforms, including use of Docker.
• Knowledge of XML and associated transforms.
• 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.

The role is based out of our Canary Wharf, London office.

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