CMA DevLead

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – Embark on a transformative journey as CMA Dev Lead, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Market Post Trade function by overseeing the development and drive the Client Money & Asset Deliveries within Markets Post Trades. This is a hands-on role which involves ensuring Barclays’ compliance with reporting regulations related to Client Money & Asset responsibilities. The position is part of a global team, requiring collaboration with teams across EMEA and India. The Dev Lead will be accountable for all aspects of development and architecture during implementation, aiming to simplify process flows. Your key responsibilities will include assisting in requirements analysis for system enhancements, translating business requirements into functional specifications, and leading the technical architecture across various regulations. You will guide the application architecture towards resilience, scalability, and performance, providing technical leadership to the CMA team. You will design and prototype user-centric components, develop quality Java code, and work with Autosys, Unix, and Perl scripts. Additionally, you will ensure code meets company standards, perform SQL query tuning, and conduct peer reviews to optimize application performance.

To be successful as a CMA Dev Lead, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience in core Java and Enterprise Software development.
• Strong experience in Multithreading, Memory management, and high-volume data processing.
• Proven experience in driving architecture and performance of large-scale, resilient applications in the Markets/Investment Banking domain.
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS (SQL Server/Oracle) and significant team management experience.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree with relevant experience.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Big Data / Hadoop technology work experience
• Cloud Experience/JVM performance tuning and garbage collection optimization experience

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The location of the role is Pune, IN.

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