Variance Lead Developer

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90276679

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Variance Lead Developer
London

As a Barclays Variance Lead Developer, you will be part of the Stress team who develop and support the Stress Management Tool and Variance systems, as well as the Pricing Add-Ins. There are a large number of projects underway and Variance/ SMT cover all asset classes. The core team maintain the platforms and various senior developers/ smaller asset class teams that own and deliver the projects on the platform for their respective 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 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.

This opportunity is open to dynamic working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

What will you be doing?
• Participate in overall strategy & design through technical discussions and personally contribute to the code-base
• Work with clients to understand how best to leverage the system to solve their business problems
• Help provide peer code reviews before code integration and deployment
• Proactively problem solve and suggest future enhancements by working with both business and technology teams to understand their requirements
• Help to manage the DevOps environment for the global variance team
• Transform business level requirements into generic features, which all business areas can benefit from – taking ownership of components
• Work with users from Analyst to Managing Director, explaining existing functionality and drilling into their business problems to offer potential solutions
• Assist in training and demonstration sessions of the applications’ key areas of functionality to new and existing stakeholders

What we’re looking for:
• High standard in one of F#/ Python/ C# and an interest in functional programming
• Practical experience of project delivery
• Good time management, prioritisation and ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all levels

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Functional programming experience
• C++ / Python/ C#/ F#
• Experience of software testing, unit, integration, stress and load tests
• Experience of working in an Investment Bank

Where will you be working?
5 North Colonnade is home to our investment bank and is in the heart of Canary Wharf, just a short walk from our headquarters at Churchill Place. It boasts an array of onsite amenities such as dry cleaner as well as a deli and buffet style staff restaurant. The building is easily accessible by tube, docklands light railway and all major bus links. The atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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