Production Engineer

Barclays; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is expanding its GTSM team in Glasgow to support Trading, Pricing and Asset data platforms. The Production Engineer role focuses on maintaining reference data accuracy, resolving incidents, and driving continuous improvement across data platforms.

You will handle complex data flows, system dependencies, and governance controls while collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders to minimize operational disruption.

Qualifications

• Experience in Production Support and Data Governance.
• Familiarity with reference/static data platforms and data integrity.
• Ability to work with complex data flows and system dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain critical reference data across upstream/downstream systems.
• Investigate complex issues; resolve root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Develop and improve governance, incident resolution, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Proactively enhance monitoring, automation, and resilience of data platforms.

Skills

SQL / database queries

Unix / Windows scripting

AWS

RDM reference data management

Risk, controls & governance awareness

Automation & efficiency mindset

Job description

We are expanding IB Markets Reference Static Data and Pricing Team and need enthusiastic and experienced professionals to join our GTSM (Global Technology Service Management) team supporting Trading, Pricing & Asset data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of Production Support, Data Governance, and System Analysis, ensuring that reference/static data (client, instrument, accounts, feeds) remains accurate, consistent, and reliable across upstream and downstream systems. Your role will require you to manage ,control and prevent reoccurrence of issues in Production and fix these before any downstream impact. You will play a key role in maintaining data integrity, incident resolution, and continuous improvement across the reference data platforms.

To be successful as a Production Engineer, you should have experience in:

• SQL / database querying, scripting in Unix /Windows, AWS.
• Data flows, interfaces, and system dependencies (e.g., batch jobs / scheduling / Autosys).
• Reference Data Management (RDM) environments including knowledge of client data / onboarding, instrument or static data, trade lifecycle impact of data errors.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Risk, control & governance awareness.
• Automation & efficiency mindset.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, communication skills and interaction with a diverse range of stakeholders, as well as job-specific technical skills .

This role will be based out of Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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.