Front Office Technology Business Analyst

Whippany, United States

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90281757

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Front Office Technology .Net Developer
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Front Office .Net Developer, you will join the Rates Options Technology team to build out the strategic risk generation platform developed and used here at Barclays, Beowulf. The successful candidate will join this agile team primarily as a full stack developer, interfacing with various groups across Front Office, Quantitative Analytics and Technology to analyze and understand complex business requirements, and designing and delivering various projects from inception to production.

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?
•   Design and Development - Undertaking a design and development role to continue the build out of the platform, designing and implementing solutions for specific projects, as well as contributing to the overall system design and architecture.
•   Support - Working quickly to solve production problems with sound analytical thinking.
•   Technical expertise - Introducing and adopting best practices in software development, and collaborating with the team to ensure consistent adoption of best practices.
•   Quality Assurance - Designing solutions using a test-driven approach, and driving quality within the team, providing constructive feedback to your colleagues.
•   Continuous Improvement - Identifying improvements to the production stack and ensure they are well represented in prioritisation forums.
•   Ensuring the successful timely delivery of core services to a high level of quality
•   Ensuring adherence to bank technical standards and full software development lifecycle of our systems, including: requirements definition, agile planning, releasing, and production support

What we’re looking for:
•   4-year college degree, with high mathematical and/or computing content, for e.g. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics.
•   Strong computer skills in an advanced programming language
•   Fixed income or any other asset class
•   A keen interest and understanding of financial markets and instruments

Skills that will help you in the role:
•   Strong experience with C#/.NET, SQL, scripting language, a source control system
•   Previous experience as a developer, technical business analyst, middle office analyst or trading support analyst
•   Knowledgeable in working with interest rate derivatives, option pricing and risk and quantitative analytics libraries

Where will you be working?
At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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