Barclays Jobs – (Quant) Developer

About the job

Prime IT RAD Developer

As a Barclays Prime IT Rapid Application Developer (RAD)/Quant Developer, you will be a member of the Prime Finance IT team and play an integral part of Prime Data Solutions team responsible for building financial models and critical trading tools catering to various Prime business/product lines across Sales, Trading and Risk Management strategy. This business is at the fore front of industry leading innovative client focused solutions using big data and financial modelling.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. 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.

This opportunity is open to flexible working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Working closely with IT, Product Management and business stakeholders to convert evolving business and trade ideas into strategic solutions in line with Prime Data Architecture
• Working closely with IT, Product Management and business stakeholders to convert evolving business and trade ideas into strategic solutions in line with Analytics strategy
• Partnering effectively with business stakeholders in front-office including Sales, Trading, Risk and Product Management to iteratively innovate and develop rapid proof of concept tools
• Innovating and developing applications around areas such as financial and quantitative modelling, desk and client centric process automations, reporting & visualization
• Developing the solutions in-line with Prime Data Architecture tools/component and transition Proof Of Concept (POC) to Minimal Viable Products (MVP) and strategic solutions
• Leveraging knowledge in capital markets across Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives including trade life cycle, reference and market data to develop end to end solutions for Prime business
• Aligning with Prime Electronification strategy and working collaboratively with front-office and IT teams to deliver high quality client-focused solutions

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Financial Engineering, Math, Computer Science, or related field
• Significant software development experience in a front office environment with hands on across all phases of development Lifecyle
• Significant experience in Python with experience in Data Analysis/Visualization libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Plotly, etc
• Understanding of Big Data/Hadoop technologies such as Hive, Impala & Spark

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Knowledge of Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, Cash & Synthetic Financing
• Prior experience in PnL/Risk modelling

Where will you be working?

5 North Colonnade is home to our investment bank and is in the heart of Canary Wharf, just a short walk from our headquarters at Churchill Place. It boasts an array of onsite amenities such as dry cleaner as well as a deli and buffet style staff restaurant. The building is easily accessible by tube, docklands light railway and all major bus links. The atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.