Job Description

Purpose of the role

To provide frontline support and useful resources to departments and colleagues across the bank with everyday IT problems, issues and requests. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of high-quality support and problem-solving capabilities through various communication channels to resolve specific technology issues related to products and applications, ensuring that the relevant stakeholders are updated on progress.
• Development of reports and dashboards to visualise and communicate key findings and recommendations for improvement to team leads and relevant stakeholders.
• Management of user requests including password resets, software installation, access provisioning and equipment troubleshooting.
• Collection and maintenance of incidents, requests and resolutions to access trends, identify common issues, track services metrics.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing documentation of resolved cases for future reference and self-service opportunities.
• Execution of assessments to establish the severity and urgency of reported issues to support the prioritisation process.
• Development and provision of user training on applications, systems and equipment to enhance experience and self-sufficiency.

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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Connectivity Software Engineer – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support the cross-asset engineering team responsible for developing Exchange Connectivity applications supporting multiple business areas. These applications are built on a distributed Java platform designed to deliver low-latency, high-throughput message processing. Your role sits within a regionally distributed development team delivering both technical and business-driven solutions, with close collaboration across global teams including London and Prague.

To be successful as a Connectivity Software Engineer – VP, you should have experience with:

• Developing low-latency trading applications using Core Java and/or C++ in Linux environments

• Multithreading, memory management, caching, networking, distributed systems, and performance-oriented system design

• Financial systems supporting trading, risk, middle office, or related services, with exposure to client or market connectivity and order management preferred

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers within a collaborative development environment

• Communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders across region

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Knowledge of financial messaging protocols such as FIX, OUCH, or Millennium

• Experience with network engineering or platform engineering concepts

• Familiarity with cloud platforms and container technologies

• Exposure to ML or AI tools within engineering environments

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our New York, NY office.

Minimum Salary: $180,000
Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.