Barclays Hiring for Senior Software Developer Job at Northampton, England Full Time

As a Barclays Senior Software Developer, you will be working in an application development team in Risk, Finance, and Treasury Technology, contributing to team projects and developing individual .NET applications and services. Using automation tools (continuous integration & automated deployment) in an agile framework, you will help deliver high quality applications, integrate with 3rd party applications to reuse functionality and data and maintain and evolve existing applications to be in line with the latest approaches and technologies.

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 – 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 flexible 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?
• Designing, developing and delivering innovative and tactical solutions to benefit the finance community

• Working closely with onshore and offshore developers within an agile environment to deliver on time, to plan and on budget.
• Working to and contributing to overall application design, translating business requirements into technical designs that can be used to effectively build applications
• Understanding the current application architecture and roadmap; ensure all solutions are developed according to standards and best practice
• Continually striving to develop yourself and stay abreast of new technologies and emerging methodologies
• Identifying independently repetitive or time consuming processes that can be automated, especially where they benefit multiple business areas
• Identifying and resolving problems, working closely with the business and support teams
• Contributing to status updates, and owning risk or issues to give early visibility of problems

What we’re looking for:
• Expertise with SQL Server 2014 and above, migration of database technologies to cloud (AWS, Snowflake, Redshift or other) and building large, structured databases

• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and development of agile tools e.g. JIRA, Git, Autosys
• Excellent problem solving & analytical skills. Role involves writing application logic and delivering novel solutions into existing frameworks
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, articulate and detail oriented, awareness of different cultural background of users and team members

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience in relevant/related Linux concepts and scripting languages (shell, Python)

• DevOps, source control, unit and integration testing, continuous integration, release management
• Effective integration with an OLAP database system, experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
• Experience in financial services

Where will you be working?
Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we’ve been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.
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