Lead Rapid Application Developer
New York, NY

As a Barclays Lead Rapid Application Developer, you will be managing the workbook of a team of dedicated engineers in New York. You will be accountable for the timely delivery of risk reports to the Trading desk, Market Risk and Product Control groups as well as ensuring key pricing applications are available to Business users. This is an opportunity to engage with Business teams to gather requirements for new functionality and prioritize work for the team and to be responsible for presenting the teams work to senior Business stakeholders.

Salary / Rate Minimum: $155,000
Salary / Rate Maximum: $225,000

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, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. 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.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a team of developers in New York up to five employees
• Making technical decisions that require a deep understanding of the problem domain, specifically improving and designing new solutions around risk generation
• Developing modern solutions to remediate legacy usage of Excel based tools
• Developing high quality maintainable code, in a variety of languages; including C#, python, SQL and an in house Barclays functional language FMD
• Collaborating and communicating with other developers and stakeholders across 3 regions, AMER EMEA and APAC. Working closely with other RAD leads in EMEA
• Developing methods, tools and standards and keeping this knowledge current (i.e. desire to learn)
• Adhering to Policies & Standards appropriate to the role - outlined in the Code of Conduct and mandatory training
• Investigating and having resolution of Production issues

What we’re looking for:

• Proven team leadership record, managing highly productive development teams
• Experience with software architecture in a variety of business domains
• Experience with a variety of programming language stacks, both object orientated and functional
• Experience of working within a Front Office facing role, directly supporting Business users

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience of working with distributed systems
• Experience building systems in trading, banking and / or financial organizations
• Experience of developing complex Excel based applications

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 37-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.