Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
* Experience of designing, building and supporting user facing analytics functionality in a front office sales environment.
* Experience of system and API design.
* Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
* Experience of commercial software development in a shared codebase with multiple developers.
* Hands-on programming in Python.
* Familiarity with modern UI frameworks.
* Experience of liaising directly with front office users in sales or trading.
* Experience with data science and visualization.
Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience developing models and tools for pricing, analysis, and risk management for consumption by sales or trading users.
* Market/product knowledge in one or more asset classes.
Purpose of the Role:
We are seeking an experienced quant developer to lead the development of a cross-asset analytics platform for front office sales, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives. This is a hands-on software development role. The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders and users to define requirements, implement back-end and UI components in partnership with technology teams, and ensure consistency with other firm-wide initiatives. This role offers significant exposure to senior management and very strong communication skills are essential.
Accountabilities:
* Deliver a cross-asset front office analytics platform to sales personnel.
* Engagement with sales users and senior stakeholders in sales and trading businesses.
* Interact with senior management to report progress and suggest strategic direction.
* Design of the system and the associated APIs.
* Hands-on development of backend and front-end components, focusing on Python and React.
* Ensure that the platform aligns with Barclays' strategic initiatives by collaborating with partners in the Technology organization.
* The role requires both evaluative judgement and analytical skills. In particular, it will require:
* A methodical aptitude for problem solving.
* Ability to learn quickly.
* Ability to adapt to change and work in a fast-changing environment.
* Initiative to spot potential problems and find innovative ways to solve them.
* Ability to balance tactical and strategic solutions in line with the overall needs of the bank.
Director Expectations:
* To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
* Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. For an individual contributor, lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks and strategic decisions.
* Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
* Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
* Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
* Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
* Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays when appropriate.
* Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
* Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
* Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
* Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
* Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
* Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
* Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
All Senior 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.
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.
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