Barclays Careers – Derivatives Developer

About the job

Equity Derivatives Developer

As a Barclays Equity Derivatives Developer, you will work closely with the Structured Equities Trading Desks (EFS) to support their business, ensure reports are delivered on time and maintain and enhance Dirac. The focus of the role is on in-house functional programming language (FMD) within Excel, C# and occasional usage of VBA. The team are undertaking a number of strategic initiatives to move functionality away from FMD and into more industry standard technologies like C#, ASP.Net and python.

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. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

Hybrid Working

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?

• Developing and maintaining FOIT applications and solutions for the EFS desk, (Marker Risk function)GFRM, and Product Control functions
• Interacting with Trading, Operations, and Finance clients as well as team members
• Providing tactical solutions on business requests
• Building out new reports on request from the stakeholders by leasing with Quant/Pricing teams
• Integrating FOIT solutions into the strategic projects within the department where required

What We’re Looking For

• Be technically proficient – knowledge of data structures, algorithms and general problem solving is required.
• Be comfortable learning new programming languages, specifically FMD.
• Be proficient in one or more of C++, C# or Excel/VBA.
• Be comfortable facing off directly to the business.

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Knowledge of functional programming (e.g. Haskell, F#).
• Knowledge of Equity Derivatives.
• Knowledge of Exotic Equity Derivatives.
• Proven ability to pick up and learn new languages on the job.

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.