Equities RTB Trade Floor Support

The Equities Run the Bank team is responsible for the Production Trading platform used by external clients and internal trading desks. The RTB team ensures that applications and infrastructure are operating to meet the needs of the Equities business. RTB is responsible for day to day support of the users, incident and outage management, and change management.

We are seeking a Front Office Trade Floor Support Specialist to join our dynamic team, and provide hands-on support for the applications used by our High Touch and Electronic Trading Business.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

What will you be doing?

• Support the production environment and user base of a critical trading platform

• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents

• Work directly with business users, development, and infrastructure teams in order to address inquires and resolve production issues quickly and improve the platform

• Participate in production changes and post release checkouts

• Drive process improvements, system monitoring, and automation

• Manage business, enterprise, and support team initiatives and projects

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, IT or Mathematics-related discipline

• 5+ years of total work experience

• 2+ years of experience in directly supporting Front Office trading applications

• Candidate to sit on the Equities trading floor sitting with the business and user base

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience in High Touch, Program Trading, Smart Order Routers and Algorithmic trading

• Strong communication skills, organizational skills, and ability to multi-task

• Strong troubleshooting capability and analytical skills

• Experience with Perl, Python and/or Shell scripting skills

• Experience with KDB, Autosys job scheduler, SQL, bitbucket, Geneos ITRS, JIRA, and Confluence

Where will you be working?

Barclays’ U.S. headquarters is located at 745 Seventh Avenue in New York, NY. At Barclays, we offer you an engaging and challenging environment, giving you the opportunity to make the most of your unique set of skills. We also have an extensive range of learning and development initiatives designed to support you both personally and professionally.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.