Global Credit Algo Technology Lead - London, United Kingdom - Barclays

Barclays
Barclays
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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Barclays Overview
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography.

Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.


We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

About Markets & Research Technology


Markets & Research Technology (also called TC2) is made up of 4,000+ colleagues across UK, US, India, Czech Republic, Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Responsible for all of the technology solutions required for the Markets front office trading. We cover all asset classes including Credit, Equities, FX, and Rates.

We partner closely with the heads of the businesses in order to deliver market leading platforms to meet our clients' needs.

Our trading systems provide stable, high-performance access to markets for our most sophisticated clients, we work on pricing systems that can quickly normalize and summarize trading state across multiple markets to inform traders and algorithms, and risk systems that can calculate business risk across a broad set of international products and firm holdings.

We build & deploy client facing tools via the Barclays web portal and mobile devices that provide the most up-to-date market monitors, analytics, research publications, and data products.

About Credit Trading Technology

Credit Trading Technology is made up of 200 colleagues and is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of all technology solutions to support the global Credit trading and sales business.

The team is focussed on the build out of a next generation trading platform to support our growing Credit franchise across the globe.

The team works closely with sales, trading and algorithmic quant groups.

Overall purpose of role

The role is responsible for leading 2 global teams. The Algo team provides the technology infrastructure to power the global credit systematic trading desk.

In tight collaboration with the trading desk, this role will be responsible for the overall strategic direction of the technology team including software design, build and maintenance as well as organisational management for the group.

The data team is taking responsibility for establishing and implementing a cohesive data strategy across credit technology looking at how we catalog, store, share and analyse the data we have.

The role will be responsible for driving this critical function across credit technology.

Key Accountabilities

  • Talent management: empowering, mentoring, supporting and building the development team. Including workforce planning, location strategy and diversity initiatives.
  • Technical architecture and vision: developing road maps to evolve platform for the future needs of the business.
  • Project Delivery: execution of projects to realize technical strategy and support evolution of the business
  • Software Development Practices: ensuring our teams follow best practices and continue to improve their SDLC tools and processes.
  • Stakeholder Management: ensuring transparency of issues and projects status to senior management and ownership of issues and risk.
  • Risk Control: ensuring the team follow policies and operate is a risk first posture at all times in relation to development processes, cyber risk and technical debt.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership

  • Develop/maintain longterm relationships; build trust with stakeholders, teams, and leadership
  • Leadership of global team of ~40 people including support, training, mentoring and career development
  • Demonstrated experience in driving change through influence
  • Solution Driven & Action Oriented
  • Maintain longterm vision, even amidst short term deliverables
Decision-making and Problem Solving

Risk and Control Objective

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Person Specification

  • Must have a natural desire to succeed through collaboration
  • Overall should be confident, enthusiastic and proactive.
  • Must be able to multitask efficiently and have an extremely high attention to detail
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across multiple technology organizations.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with other project team members, including Technology, business and Compliance teams at all levels, gauging the level of technical knowledge of the audience in these communications
  • Must have an inquisitive nature; able to work independently to take a problem, break it down, recognise additional questions and find solutions.
  • Must be highly organised, structured and result driven

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

  • Excellent communication, relationsh
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