Front-office IT Team Lead - London, United Kingdom - Barclays

Barclays

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Front-Office IT Team Lead

London

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.

Working Flexibly

What will you be doing?:

Managing the team of 8 developers in London (~5) and Prague (~3), (50%), software developing (30%) and IT supporting (20%)
Presenting the teams work to senior Business stakeholders at regular meetings
Working closely with the Front-Office IT Global Lead to deliver solutions that work across all regions
Improving the processes employed by the development team to help them be more productive in their roles
Making technical decisions that require a solid understanding of the problem domain
Collaborating and communicating globally with other developers and team leads to build technical solutions
Helping with investigation and resolution of production issues

What we're looking for:

A solid knowledge of software development methods, tools and standards and actively keep this knowledge current (i.e., desire to learn)
Proven team leadership record, managing highly productive development teams
Experience with software architecture in a variety of business domains and a variety of programming language stacks, both objectorientated and functional
Significant 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

Where will you be working?

In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links.

With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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