Job Description

Business Analyst
Glasgow

As a Barclays Business Analyst, you will be based within the Macro Rates Trade Capture Development team which focuses on delivery of changes to the Rates Trade Capture Systems, databases, reporting and publication services. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a multi-year industry-wide strategic initiative.

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 dynamic 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.

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?

• You will be accountable for designing technical architectures
• Providing inputs in the technical design / architecture of a first-of-a-kind distributed ledger system (DLT)
• Working with global team members to delivery revolutionary post-trade F2B architecture
• Soliciting business / functional requirements and providing technical steer to business outcomes
• You will be accountable for biweekly Industry forum representation and Monthly SteerCo updates
• Proposing technology innovations that will solve the business problems in a fast paced and ever changing / evolving environment
• Being responsible for Stakeholder management and interactions with wider teams

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Proven data-mining and consistency checking / due diligence techniques with the ability to translate data into requirements, impact assessment and prioritisation recommendations
• Solid experience in Interest Rates Derivatives (\xe2\x80\x9cRates\xe2\x80\x9d) or other Asset Classes like Credits or Equities
• Prior experience with Pre-Trade / Post-Trade capture, workflow, processing and associated life-cycling
• Proven experience working with trade capture platforms and external trading venues / ECNs

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience working with external avenues like affirmation platforms (MarktiWire) and Clearing Houses (LCH, CME, etc.)
• Thorough knowledge of industry-wide mark-up languages, like FpML and associated transform libraries (XSLT)
• Aware of Dealer-to-Dealer (D2D) and Dealer-to-Client (D2C) flows with the affirmation / clearing platforms
• Ability to draft and maintain concise and accurate requirements and other project artefacts such as RAID logs

Where will you be working?
The new Barclays campus which sits on 6.7 acres alongside the River Clyde with workspace over 3 unique buildings and 500,000 square feet. Our campus has been designed with a range of workspaces to help support the different types of work colleagues do and ways we might be working in the future. It boasts a wider range of amenities including food and drink at the Barclays Glasgow campus is rooted in the artisan craft of the city, with honest, flexible, and delicious options to fuel your day and enjoy with colleagues.

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