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Barclays Services Corp. seeks Technology Lead - AVP in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Design, develop, and maintain Java Spring Boot–based applications and microservices supporting financial crime transaction monitoring systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design, implement, and support AWS cloud environments for application workloads, including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and security services; perform end to end setup and configuration across development, testing, and production environments; implement AWS native logging and monitoring; and investigate production issues through root cause analysis and corrective actions to maintain application and infrastructure controls.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, supporting automated builds, testing, infrastructure deployment, and controlled releases across AWS environments.
• Utilize Databricks as a data processing and analytics platform to develop and execute Python and PySpark–based workloads, supporting distributed data processing, validation, and analytical tasks for transaction monitoring and related systems.
• Apply Generative AI technical capabilities by using Amazon Bedrock and related AWS services to support end to end GenAI application development, including implementation of required technical controls, risk mitigation mechanisms, and governance for enterprise GenAI workloads.
• Perform Scrum Master responsibilities by facilitating Agile ceremonies, tracking sprint progress, and addressing technical impediments to support consistent delivery in alignment with established Agile practices.
• Work in a cross technology, horizontal capacity supporting multiple team programs and initiatives, including solutions involving OpenShift container based deployments, workflow orchestration platforms, and Generative AI projects.
• Support people development activities by participating in technical interviews, mentoring junior developers, and providing technical guidance to support development standards and delivery quality.
• Communicate complex and sensitive technical information related to application behavior, cloud platform risks, and remediation activities to technical and non technical stakeholders.

Salary / Rate Minimum/yr: $193,461 per year

Salary / Rate Maximum/yr: $200,000 per year

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.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.