Barclays Jobs – Senior Software Developer

About the job

Senior Software Developer

As a Barclays Senior Software Developer, you will be working in an application development team in Risk, Finance, and Treasury Technology, contributing to team projects and developing individual .NET applications and services. Using automation tools (continuous integration & automated deployment) in an agile framework, you will help deliver high quality applications, integrate with 3rd party applications to reuse functionality and data and maintain and evolve existing applications to be in line with the latest approaches and technologies.

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.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means 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. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Designing, developing and delivering innovative and tactical solutions to benefit the finance community
• Working closely with onshore and offshore developers within an agile environment to deliver on time, to plan and on budget
• Contributing to overall application design, translating business requirements into technical designs that can be used to effectively build applications
• Demonstrating an understanding of the current application architecture and roadmap; ensuring all solutions are developed according to standards and best practice
• Continually striving to develop yourself and stay abreast of new technologies and emerging methodologies
• Identifying independently repetitive or time-consuming processes that can be automated, especially where they benefit multiple business areas
• Identifying and resolving problems, working closely with the business and support teams
• Contributing to status updates, and owning risk or issues to ensure early visibility of problems

What We’re Looking For

• Expertise with SQL Server 2014 and above, migration of database technologies to cloud (AWS, Snowflake, Redshift or other) and building large, structured databases
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and development of agile tools e.g. JIRA, Git, Autosys
• Excellent problem solving & analytical skills, role involves writing application logic and delivering novel solutions into existing frameworks
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, articulate and detail oriented, awareness of different cultural background of users and team members

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Knowledge of relevant/related Linux concepts and scripting languages (shell, Python)
• Knowledge of DevOps, source control, unit and integration testing, continuous integration, release management
• Effective integration with an OLAP database system, experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• Experience in financial services

Where will you be working?

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we’ve been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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