About the Role
Lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. Drive technical excellence, foster innovation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. This role is pivotal in shaping the strategic direction of Central Limit Hub (CLH) and OTC Client Clearing technology platforms, supporting a global engineering team delivering low-latency, business-critical solutions for real-time trade approvals, risk monitoring, and limit monitoring across multiple asset classes. It offers an opportunity to work with Front Office, Risk, Operations, and Technology guidance while driving platform modernization, AI adoption, and strategic limit guidance across Barclays Liquid Financing Markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization for successful solution delivery.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, and provide feedback.
- Evaluate and enhance engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency and optimize productivity.
- Collaborate with business partners, product managers, and designers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Enforce technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices.
- Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes.
- Deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for department's future needs and operations.
- Counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
- Lead specialists to influence department operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities.
- Balance short and long-term goals, ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
- Act as a subject matter expert and guide technical direction.
- Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members.
- Identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization.
- Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists.
- Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organization functions to contribute to business goals.
- Collaborate with other areas for business-aligned support.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
- Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis.
- Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with stakeholders.
- Use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship).
- Demonstrate Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).
Requirements
- Considerable experience in Financial Markets Technology, with deep knowledge in Limits Oversight, OTC Trading, Client Clearing, Risk Monitoring, and related capital markets domains.
- Established experience supporting engineering, delivery, or platform teams.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
- Ample experience designing and building enterprise platforms, data architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Considerable software engineering ability, particularly in Java.
- Experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complex technology solutions in fast-paced environments.
- Knowledge of Portfolio Margin, House Margin, Regulatory Margin, Exposure Monitoring, and Collateral Administration.
- Understanding of MiFID III and broader regulatory programs impacting financial markets.
- Knowledge building real-time, low-latency trading or risk monitoring platforms.
- Experience driving platform modernization, cloud adoption, or AI-enabled transformation efforts.
- Working across globally distributed teams and delivering highly detailed programmed across multiple regions.
- May be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.
Skills
- Java
- AI
- Emerging Technologies
- Platform Modernization
- Cloud Adoption
- Risk Monitoring
- Limit Monitoring
- OTC Trading
- Client Clearing
- Portfolio Margin
- House Margin
- Regulatory Margin
- Exposure Monitoring
- Collateral Administration
- MiFID III
- Low-latency trading platforms
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Influencing Skills
- Negotiating Skills
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- VP
- Lead
Salary/Compensations
- Minimum Salary: $170,000
- Maximum Salary: $230,000
About the Company
- At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
- Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
