Job Description

Trading Systems Engineer
London

As a Barclays Trading Systems Engineer you will be providing high quality bespoke support of the electronic trading plant which underpins the Cash Equity and Quantitative Prime Services (QPS) businesses. You will be involved in providing technical support, continuous service improvement, infrastructure architecture and project management. You will be liaising with senior leads in Front-Office, Operations, Compliance and other functions on risk and control, production performance, incident, problem and change.

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.

This opportunity is open to flexible working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

Hybrid Working
We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning 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. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Providing support for Quantitative Prime Services (QPS) applications
• Developing specialist knowledge in relevant systems, sharing that knowledge, as required, with global teams
• Liaising with Business users and Information Technology (IT) counterparts on potential process improvements
• Liaising with development teams on future applications and improvements
• Taking ownership of issues through to resolution or escalation, as appropriate
• Proactively improving the quality of systems and service, and increase business value
• Undertaking projects as required in areas such as: capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, web based tools, reporting and documentation
• Ensuring stability, supportability and deployment efficiency is delivered by working with development leads, project managers and business analysts

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Degree in an Information Technology (IT), Engineering or Mathematics-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of Equities Electronic Trading in a related front-office application support role within investment banking
• Exposure to Low Latency environments
• Strong knowledge of supporting applications on Unix platforms, fluent user of the command line.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Exposure to network connectivity investigation and diagnostics
• Experience of client and exchange connectivity platforms with exposure to exchange Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and protocols
• Bash/Perl scripting and/or Python/Java programming experience
• Experience with Autosys scheduling

Where will you be working?
5 North Colonnade is home to our investment bank and is in the heart of Canary Wharf, just a short walk from our headquarters at Churchill Place. It boasts an array of onsite amenities such as dry cleaner as well as a deli and buffet style staff restaurant. The building is easily accessible by tube, docklands light railway and all major bus links. The atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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