Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP

About the role

Embark on a transformative journey as an Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP at Barclays. Our vision is to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support best-in-class equity, derivatives, risk, pricing and trade booking platforms.

Responsibilities

• Support best-in-class equity, derivatives, risk, pricing and trade booking platforms
• Effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure
• Resolve complex technical issues, while minimizing disruption to operations
• Provision technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client or group of clients
• Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders
• Execute preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software, and utilise monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance
• Maintain a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing
• Analyse system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and provide a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency
• Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur

Requirements

• Experience in Equities Derivatives Trading in a related front-office application support role within investment banking
• Significant knowledge of supporting applications on Unix platforms and exposure to SQL scripting
• Fundamental understanding of ITIL concepts and their implementation in the working environment
• Experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys
• Knowledge of ITRS Geneos, including deployment of netprobes and Gateway configuration
• Bash/Perl scripting and/or Python/Java programming experience (an added advantage but not mandatory)

Qualifications

• Highly valued skills include experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys, knowledge of ITRS Geneos, Bash/Perl scripting and/or Python/Java programming experience

Skills

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen and strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Benefits

The role is based in New York. The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Pay

Minimum Salary: $115,000
Maximum Salary: $160,000

Schedule

N/A

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard