Job Description

Java Developer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Java Developer you will be joining Fixed Income Financing team within Investment Banking technology area. You will be instrumental in implementing, developing, enhancing and supporting Repo Market Data, Trade Execution, Trade Capture and other Front Office applications. In your role you will take ownership of the deliverables of each iteration, ensuring the scope of the project/deliverables is well understood.

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 \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Designing complex systems; good command over the relevant design patterns and concepts covering failover and resiliency
• Developing and supporting of trade capture platform for Repo Trading Platform
• Performing code reviews to ensure implemented functionality matches expectations and is in line with coding standards defined globally
• Co-ordinating with the QA team and the larger IT group in delivery of implemented features to production
• Interacting with front office users and operations for requirements/support
• Assisting in the investigation and troubleshooting of production issues.
• Playing an active role in mentoring/coaching/training and development of team members
• Improving processes and software in a continuous feedback cycle

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Solid experience on core Java Developer Must have strong skills in Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts, Java, Relational Databases
• Exposure to Core Java, Restful services, Spring, Unix, Solace, Database
• Solid knowledge of middleware platforms (Solace, IBM MQ)
• Solid experience on in-memory data grid caching technologies preferably Ignite/GridGain

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Solid experience developing high-performance software. Ability to coordinate activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable
• Exposure to skill in Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery and System integration
• Solid experience with Docker/Kubernetes and development of containerized applications
• Exposure of financial markets

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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