Preferred Skills for Java Developer Job Opening at Barclays:

• Java 8, good experience in Core Java, multi-threading processing
• RESTful API, Spring Batch, Microservices Architecture
• Messaging – JMS and Solace (Camel and routing)
• Good experience in Database queries and Unix commands
• Banking domain / Reg Reporting knowledge
• Problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and written/oral communications skills.

Other Skills that will help you in the role:

• Build and Deployment tools (CI/CD, Jenkins, Team-city)
• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence process
• Sound time management and organizational skills

• You’ll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
• You’ll harness cutting-edge technology to evolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

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.

Analyst Expectations

• Execute work requirements as identified in processes and procedures, collaborating with and impacting on the work of closely related teams.
• Check work of colleagues within team to meet internal and stakeholder requirements.
• Provide specialist advice and support pertaining to own work area.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how all teams in area contribute to the objectives of the broader sub-function, delivering impact on the work of collaborating teams.
• Continually develop awareness of the underlying principles and concepts on which the work within the area of responsibility is based, building upon administrative / operational expertise.
• Make judgements based on practise and previous experience.
• Assess the validity and applicability of previous or similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances that are not covered by procedures.
• Communicate sensitive or difficult information to customers in areas related specifically to customer advice or day to day administrative requirements.
• Build relationships with stakeholders/ customers to identify and address their needs.

Preferred Skills for Junior Cloud Engineer Job Opening at Barclays

• AWS Cloud Services
• AWS Connect
• CloudFormation
• Serverless
• Lex
• Go Lang

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Java
• Openshift
• CI/CD

• 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

• 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.

Preferred Skills for Developer Job Opening at Barclays:

• Ability to own end to end development activity
• Problem Solving, planning & organisation
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with all Programme/Project disciplines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Collaborate in the design, development and implementation of a centralised secure, scalable and efficient Permissions platform.
• Support the creation and maintenance of the technical roadmap for the evolution of the group wide Permissions platform.
• Coach, collaborate and facilitate will colleagues and engineers to design, build and maintain the platform, following agile software development principles.
• Ensure the highest levels of platform security and compliance.
• Optimise platform performance and efficiency.
• Provide feedback and action activities to mature and improve operations and processes within the team and more broadly across the function

Preferred Skills for Software Engineer Job Opening at Barclays:

• Hands-on and experienced IAM engineering team member, who contributes to thought-leadership, decision making, mentoring, fostering collaboration and demonstrating excellence through delivery.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with people from both technical and non-technical backgrounds and with people at all levels of the organisation from early careers to senior leaders.
• Broad understanding and interest in authorisation (RBAC / PBAC), permissions and security standards, technologies, capabilities and platform engineering principles.
• Broad understanding and interest in cloud and containerisation technologies.
• A passion for developing and delivering (starter-finisher) complex solutions and writing code
• A passion for learning and obtaining new knowledge and sharing with colleagues

Basic Qualifications:

• Experienced and proficient full stack development: web and mobile front-end technologies e.g React, Java, APIs & microservices, PostgreSQL, data structures, workflow
• Site Reliability Engineering (automation, observability, incident management, resilience, disaster recovery, high availability, documentation)
• Policy Management (XACML, Open Policy Agent, OPA Gateways, OPA debugging and testing, Rego policy language, Styra DAS, Permit.io)
• Implementation of Role Based Access Control and Policy Based Access Control (Attribute Based Access Control) systems in Mandatory Access and Discretionary Access based scenarios.
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD approaches and technologies

Skills That Will Help You In The Role:

• DevSecOps (secure coding best practices, defensive programming, security testing, data security, network security, cloud security, security compliance and regulations)
• Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform) and Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• AWS and Azure cloud component and services integration (RDS / Azure DB, S3 / Azure Blob)
• Workflow Tools: IBM BAW, jBPM
• CI/CD: GitLab, Jenkins, Chef, Git

• Understand of agile development methodology and practice it in day to day work
• Ensure DevOps principles are adopted in applications
• Undertake impact assessment of change requests/incidents against applications / products within domain
• Working as part of scrum teams, deliver technical stories within sprint cycles.
• Responsible for story based development & unit test and adherence to all coding standards
• Responsible for high quality code that achieves consistent SQALE A rating with no technical debt within SonarQube
• Application development
• Contribute strongly to all agile ceremonies (planning / stand-ups / retro etc.) to ensure high velocity is maintained.
• Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
• Report progress against assigned activities in a timely manner.

Preferred Skills for Developer Job Opening at Barclays:

• Minimum qualification –Engineering Graduate or MCA (or equivalent degree)
• Must have experience of working in an IT project environment preferably in banking and financial sector.
• Must have Strong skills in Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts, Core Java 8/11, Java Enterprise Edition 6 (e.g. EJB, JMS, JPA, MDB, JAX-RS) and other middleware frameworks such as Apache Camel and Spring, multi-threading and unit testing
• Must have Strong understanding of application server configurations.
• Hands on knowledge on RESTFul API.
• Hands on knowledge on any one RDBMS
• Must have strong skill in Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming and System integration.
• Must have strong skill in build process such as Maven.
• Understand of agile development methodology and practice it in day-to-day work.
• Responsible for high quality code that achieves consistent SQALE A rating with no technical debt within SonarQube.
• Must understand Kafka/MQ integration.
• Should have experience on CI/CD pipelines
• Sound experience in application performance tuning
• Good to have exposure to containerization and cloud technology

Other Skills that will help you in the role:

• Ability to own end to end development activity
• Problem Solving, planning & organisation
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix Org Structure
• Knowledge of the products within the portfolio
• Knowledge of internal and external systems/infrastructure critical to product fulfilment and service
• Customer orientated – driven by customer requirements
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with all Programme/Project disciplines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem Management process
• Experience with Banking Technology/Payments domain

• Accountable for the production of high quality software on a personal and team level adhering to all software engineering quality standards / benchmarks and meeting delivery timelines.
• Comprehensive and clear documentation of the deliverables.
• Ensure that developed code is free of tech debt and easy to maintain.
• Collaborate with other team members to build technical solutions that meet customer needs.
• Keep up with the current and emerging software development methods, tools and standards.
• Demonstrate passion for adoption of new tools, processes and technology trends to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify the areas of improvement and come up with plans to optimize the engineering processes, focusing on automation and process simplification.
• Keep up-to-date on the wider industry regulations, standards and trends.
• Provide technical leadership to less senior members of the team.
• Promote innovation, quality and exploration of new ideas as a culture.
• Maintain and contribute to development of relevant technical specialism in team.

Preferred Skills for Full Stack Engineer Job Opening at Barclays:

• Strong understanding of enterprise design principles to build secure, fault tolerant and scalable systems.
• Also have strong hands on development experience in core Java 7/8, with JPA/hibernate, Spring, mocking frameworks and caching concepts OR equivalent experience in Python
• Strong knowledge of technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring-JMS, Spring-Data
• Working Experience of API development using REST / SOAP with Spring.
• Working Experience of implementing API security and authentication (OAuth2, JWT etc.).
• Ability to enforce code quality using tools like SonarQube, Veracode as feedback loops.
• Working experience of developer tools like Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, Git etc.
• Working experience of IaC and Automation tools such as Ansible/Chef/Terraform OR event bus products such as Kafka.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, SRE and CI:CD.
• Awareness of Cloud hosting – OpenShift Enterprise, AWS, etc.
• Working knowledge of testing methodologies like TDD, BDD etc and testing automation.
• Good communicator and team player.
• A strong work ethic – team player, creative, passionate and disciplined.

Other Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience of working with RDBMS development experience (e.g. Oracle) & SQL skills
• Coding experience in UI technologies like HTML, JSP, Java Script, Angular JS etc.
• Working knowledge of release and change management process (ITIL).
• Experience of using test automation tools (e.g. Selenium)
• Working knowledge of cloud security and network concepts.
• Experience working with PaaS products, including some experience of container orchestration / management utilising products such as Red Hat Openshift / VMWare / AWS / Azure etc.

• Competitive pay
• Paid holiday and vacation
• Flexible working
• Private medical care
• Life insurance

• To lead and be accountable for system engineering activity for one or more applications / products across the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Use system-specific knowledge and technical expertise to define technical strategies that provides business solutions.
• Collaborating with Architects, PMs and developers as well as  support and Infrastructure teams during and for the Design and development of the software components within the project scope, ensuring quality, timeliness and cost effectiveness in order to support the high performance delivery of change projects within RDC.
• Support to Design Phases through performing requirement analysis and design.
• Provision of strong build expertise to both project development and BAU enhancement.

Preferred Skills for Technology Summer Intern Job Opening at Barclays:

• Proficient in either OOPS, Java, C/C++, J2EE, Oracle, Hibernate, WebLogic, Spring or mainframe Technologies
• Must have advanced Excel and PowerPoint knowledge
• Strategic and creative thinking; distinguished written and oral communications skills

Benefits of working for Barclays:

At Barclays, you’ll support our customers and clients, and we’ll support you with rewards that will genuinely make a difference. See some of the benefits* you could receive when joining us full-time.

• Competitive pay
• Paid holiday and vacation
• Flexible working
• Private medical care
• Life insurance