Senior Quant Algo DeveloperJob 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
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
4. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization's technologymunities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
5. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
6. Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Vice President Expectations
7. To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make rmendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
8. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
9. 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..
10. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation toplete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
11. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
12. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control andernance agenda.
13. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
14. Demonstrateprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
15. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
16. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thoughtparing and selectingplex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
17. Adopt and include the oues of extensive research in problem solving processes.
18. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to aplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve oues.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moralpass, 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.
Join us as a Senior Quant Algo Developer at Barclays, supporting the Equity Flow Derivatives business, where you will help build our algorithmic volatility trading stack and markets facing analytics. In this role you will work alongside traders, developers, quants,pliance and risk teams to help manage risk and make positive significant impact to our revenue generation.
To be successful as a Senior Quant Algo Developer, you should have:
19. Algo development experience with low-latency modern C++
20. Experience with data engineering practices using KDB+/q
21. Practical knowledge of volatility trading and market microstructure in equity derivatives
Other skills that would be useful in this role:
22. Master's or PhD in STEM (math, statistics, orputer science)
23. Machine learning and optimization theory
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls,munication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based out of our London office. Job ID JR-0000026634