FLOW VOLATILITY QUANTITATIVE DEVELOPER

This role is regulated by FINRA

As a Barclays Flow Volatility Quantitative Developer, within the Derivatives trading team, you will have the opportunity to develop and manage software for analytics, management Information, and real time market visualizations. Your role will be central in risk trading with the potential to grow into a broader set of responsibilities in the team.   You will be part of the continued growth of the Flow Volatility Business.  As the business expands in size and product scope, you will need to consistently enrich our analytic tools. 

Salary / Rate Minimum: $155,000

Salary / Rate Maximum: $250,000

THE MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM SALARY/RATE INFORMATION ABOVE INCLUDE ONLY BASE SALARY OR BASE HOURLY RATE. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY ANOTHER TYPE OF COMPENSATION OR BENEFITS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE.

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.

WORKING FLEXIBLY

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes 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.

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

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•     Building analysis tools and reports

•     Utilizing your own ingenuity and creating tools to assess historical and real time market data

•     Ensuring that the Flow Volatility business has best in class portfolio analysis through your work with position traders, technology, and other quantitative developers 

•     Employing a breadth of programming languages including Java, Python, KDB, and MySQL

•     Having ownership of data processes, code and the associated application management

•     Utilizing these tools to aid in the portfolio decision making process

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•     A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information services, engineering, or related field

•     Programming expertise in Java, Python, KDB or MySQL

•     Understanding and experience in GUI development

•     Software engineering background with understanding in maintaining distributed systems

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Experience managing distributed data services

•     Understanding of the equity or volatility markets

•     Broad knowledge and understanding of statistics

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

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.