Assistant Vice President, Developer
Location: Whippany
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
What will you be doing? Barclays Services Corp. seeks Assistant
Vice President, Developer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions
available): 1. Design and develop exotics analytics price and
strategic trade booking platform for Structured Notes, and
contribute to the overall system design, architecture and
development on risk platform, booking tools for exotic products and
price streaming platforms. 2. Enhance systems to facilitate
Regulatory requirements (FRTB IM/SSA, CCAR, Libor cessation). 3.
Manage stakeholders by working directly with front office trading,
operations and other business users to collect requirements and
provide regular status updates and support. 4. Reduce technical
debt by introducing and adopting best practices in software
development and collaborating with the team to ensure consistent
adoption of best practices and migrating off legacy technical
stacks. 5. Compute cost optimizations by working on cost reduction
initiatives to reduce grid compute costs by moving to efficient
valuation models and distributing across HPC/AWS clusters. 6. Lead
the migration of stochastic valuation models, moving away from
Black Scholes to better capture volatility risk exposure. 7.
Develop strategic UI interfaces using HTML5/React for trade
booking/risk management platform. 8. Integrate with OpenFin
platform, defining data taxonomies for Macro/Rates business and
seamlessly interact with other applications (RFQ activity, internal
margins, Credit exposures, Axes etc.) in the space. 9. Enhance the
server-side stack, moving to microservices stack using Vert.X,
SpringBoot. service discovery via Zookeeper, asynchronous messaging
on Confluent Kafka and deployments using Kubernetes/Docker
containers. 10. Work with Front Office traders to provide
risk/trade/static/market data via APIs to support their development
on Python Notebooks. 11. May telecommute. This position is eligible
for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.
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. Assistant
Vice President Expectations To advise and influence decision
making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility
for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other
functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex
tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to
deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set
objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives,
appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination
of reward outcomes 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 lead collaborative
assignments and guide team members through structured assignments,
identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of
specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new
directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a
combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet
required outcomes. Consult on complex issues; providing advice to
People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new
policies/procedures in support of the control and governance
agenda. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls
in relation to the work done. Perform work that is closely related
to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas
coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of
the organisation sub-function. Collaborate with other areas of
work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with
business activity and the business strategy. Engage in complex
analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and
external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas,
teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and
effectively. Communicate complex information. Complex information
could include sensitive information or information that is
difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders 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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