Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP

Embark on a transformative journey as an Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP.At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support best-in-class equity, derivatives, risk, pricing and trade booking platforms. Your role will consist of effectively monitoring and maintaining the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolving complex technical issues, whilst minimizing disruption to operations.

To be successful as an Equities Trading System Engineer - AVP, you should have:

• Experience in Equities Derivatives Trading in a related front-office application support role within investment banking
• Considerable knowledge of supporting applications on Unix platforms and exposure to SQL scripting
• Fundamental understanding of ITIL concepts and their implementation in the working environment

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys
• Knowledge of ITRS Geneos, including deployment of netprobes and Gateway configuration
• Bash/Perl scripting and/or Python/Java programming experience will be an added advantage but not mandatory

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is in our New York office.

Minimum Salary: $115,000

Maximum Salary: $160,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client group or group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self‑service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front‑office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service‑impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

• 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.
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