Barclays Jobs – Lead Java Developer

About the job

Lead Java Developer

As a Barclays Lead Java Developer you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of applications from initial idea through to implementation of the features used by both Barclays customers and our colleagues. The multi-channel applications are provided across web, mobile, telephony and contact center platforms. The applications you will deliver will make use of the latest UI, container and api technologies, deployed onto cloud platforms. You will be focused on enhancing our engineering teams and providing technical leadership across our desktop engineering teams.

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 location flexible. We will consider requests for locating the role at an alternative Barclays’ key UK office from that advertised.

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?

• Producing SOLID code with excellent test coverage
• Performing code reviews ensuring implemented functionality matches expectations and is in line with coding standards defined globally
• Creating new and updated current automation processes, suggesting areas for improvements
• Identifying your own and others’ development needs and seeking opportunities to address these needs through guidance, coaching and formal training
• Providing engineering leadership for our Java teams across our servicing desktops within Barclays UK
• Maintaining an up to date knowledge of emerging software engineering methods, tools and standards current
• Managing business requirements to understand how system requirements fit within overall business solution, and challenging any requirements that are incomplete.
• Executing creative problem solving and tasks

What We’re Looking For

• Demonstrable understanding of Java, Spring Framework and JPA and Very strong development experience of REST, JSON, Servlets, Microservices
• Cloud Platforms, e.g. AWS, OpenShift and Databases such as Oracle / DB2 / MongoDB
• Knowledge of Testing and Mocking frameworks (e.g. TDD, Mockito, WireMock etc)
• Vast experience of version control, automated testing, continuous integration, deployment tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, Gradle, Jenkins, Groovy)

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Graph QL
• Working on large scale codebases and DevOps experience (Jenkins – configuring pipelines)
• Micro front-end skills / composition
• Experience in React / Angular / Vue and Financial services experience

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.