Electronic Trading Support Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment bank as an Electronic Trading Support Engineer in London. Influence the evolution of their trading systems and collaborate closely with traders and technical teams to optimize performance and reliability. This role requires strong communication skills and deep eTrading business knowledge, ideally with a focus on rates and other asset classes.

Qualifications

• Experience with eTrading systems and business operations.
• Strong communication skills to interact with trading and technical teams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and scalability of trading systems.
• Automate operational processes to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with development teams for best practices integration.

Skills

eTrading Business knowledge

Communication

Technical understanding

Tools

Elastic

Geneos ITRS

Grafana

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Client:

Investment Bank

Location:

london, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

26.06.2025

Expiry Date:

10.08.2025

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Job Description:

Purpose of the role

To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.

Accountabilities

• Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• 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.
• 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.

Join us as a Rates eTrading System Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings,. We are looking for someone strong business knowledge, someone who wants to be on the trade-floor as much as possible facing off to the Trading Desk, and is capable to speak to both Trading and developers in a pressured environment.

To be successful as a Rates eTrading System Engineer, you should have experience with

• Strong eTrading Business knowledge and expertise (preferably Rates, but other asset classes also acceptable)
• Confident communicator with ability to face off to both Front Office Trading and technical developers

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Experience managing and helping prioritize a book of work to remediate issues and enhance the product
• Experience using and implementing monitoring and observability solutions, ideally including tools like Elastic, Geneos ITRS and Grafana
• Aptitude to understand relevant technologies and investigate logs to identify production issues