Director - Senior Sales Strat - Front Office Platform

Barclays UK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Experience of designing, building and supporting user facing analytics functionality in a front office sales environment.
• Experience of system and API design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Experience of commercial software development in a shared codebase with multiple developers.
• Hands-on programming in Python.
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks.
• Experience of liaising directly with front office users in sales or trading.
• Experience with data science and visualization.

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing models and tools for pricing, analysis, and risk management for consumption by sales or trading users.
• Market/product knowledge in one or more asset classes.

Purpose of the Role:

We are seeking an experienced quant developer to lead the development of a cross-asset analytics platform for front office sales, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives. This is a hands-on software development role. The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders and users to define requirements, implement back-end and UI components in partnership with technology teams, and ensure consistency with other firm-wide initiatives. This role offers significant exposure to senior management and very strong communication skills are essential.

Accountabilities:

• Deliver a cross-asset front office analytics platform to sales personnel.
• Engagement with sales users and senior stakeholders in sales and trading businesses.
• Interact with senior management to report progress and suggest strategic direction.
• Design of the system and the associated APIs.
• Hands-on development of backend and front-end components, focusing on Python and React.
• Ensure that the platform aligns with Barclays' strategic initiatives by collaborating with partners in the Technology organization.
• The role requires both evaluative judgement and analytical skills. In particular, it will require:
• A methodical aptitude for problem solving.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to adapt to change and work in a fast-changing environment.
• Initiative to spot potential problems and find innovative ways to solve them.
• Ability to balance tactical and strategic solutions in line with the overall needs of the bank.

Director Expectations:

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. For an individual contributor, lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.