Software Developer

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services LLC seeks Software Developer in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• On behalf of a global financial services organization, design, build, and develop Data Warehouse software applications, including unit testing and documentation, in accordance with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and procedures.
• Conduct cost-benefit analysis and employ Agile techniques such as task estimation, test automation, deployment automation and continuous integration to enhance overall execution speed and product quality.
• Coordinate and participate in requirement analysis meetings with application stakeholders to address technical questions, review system capabilities, and finalize application requirements.
• Prepare Business Requirements documents and Functional Specifications documents based on finalized requirements.
• Prepare Technical Design Documents (TDDs) to depict data flow for applications and prepare detailed design documents that include all coding components to be developed based on requirements.
• Build technically sound Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) jobs using Ab Initio to perform software ingestion, storage, and presentation of enterprise data, taking into account data storage strategies, data access, and security.
• Translate file layout specifications using Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC), American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), X9, JSON, Excel, and fixed-length, variable-length, and delimited data formats.
• Perform coding tasks including developing ETL mapping and workflows, developing UNIX shell scripts, developing database scripts to create tables and data views, and creating jobs as well as scheduling job streams using Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS).
• Execute test scripts to validate code. Migrate and replace SAS ETL processes with Ab Initio graphs.
• Analyze and resolve data lineage issues using the AbInitio Metadata Hub. Migrate data from Hadoop or between databases using Ab Initio.
• Analyze and fix defects with developed code after testing to meet proposed Service-Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Monitor, support, and validate code once implemented and deployed to production.
• Prepare detailed documentation of proper code flow.
• Collaborate with data modelers and contribute to physical data models.
• Transition applications and related artifacts to the Run-The-Bank (RTB) team to enable them to provide on-call support.
• Provide technical support to business analysts and project managers as well as coaching to less experienced staff across geographically dispersed teams.

This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.