Java Developer London, England
Job description
Java Developer
Glasgow
As a Barclays Java Developer, you will get an exciting opportunity to work actively within Markets Post Trade along with Risk Finance and Treasury. In your role, you will help design and build trade data across the front to back stack design. It will also be your responsibility to design and develop macro services in addition to providing overall support across the BAU space.
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.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
- Contributing to the design and building of highly scalable applications used for trade validation, lifecycle tracking and real-time consumption of trade data
- Interacting with end users & product owners to know their requirements and build solutions
- Implementing functional solutions and regression tests
- Contributing to design sessions and coordination of releases in an active manner
- Providing assistance to the applications of BAU work as needed
- Doing ad hoc duties as and when required
- Excellent Java and development skills, including extensive multi-threaded programming and SQL experience
- Prior experience of building enterprise scale applications
- Spring framework, with hands-on experience of Java and J2EE technologies
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in working with Kafka
- Experience working in an investment bank preferable
- Working knowledge of agile and Scrum, DevOps and exposure to cloud technologies will be an added advantage
- Good communication skills, with ability to communicate thoughts, designs, and implementations in both written and verbal form
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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