QPS RTB Technical Lead

Barclays UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a QPS RTB Technical Lead in London. In this position, you will be responsible for leading a team that supports electronic trading platforms. The ideal candidate will have a degree relevant to IT or engineering, along with strong programming skills in Bash, Python, or Java, and experience in equities electronic trading technology. This role also involves monitoring critical infrastructure and resolving complex technical issues. An exciting opportunity for a skilled professional looking to make an impact.

Qualifications

• Degree in an IT, Engineering, or Mathematics-related discipline required.
• Proficient in Bash, Python, or Java programming.
• Experience with connectivity platforms and exchange APIs is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the RTB team supporting electronic trading platforms.
• Monitor and maintain critical technology infrastructure.
• Resolve complex technical issues while minimizing operational disruption.

Skills

Experience in equities electronic trading technology

Bash/Python/Java programming experience

Exposure to exchange APIs and protocols

Low latency trading application background

Education

Degree in IT, Engineering or Mathematics-related discipline

Job description

Join Barclays as a QPS RTB Technical Lead, where you will be responsible for leading RTB team that supports electronic trading platforms for multiple Business lines. The ideal candidate should have previous experience in equities electronic trading technology, low-latency systems and leading application teams with a deep understanding of end-to-end latency across the technology stack.

To be successful, you should have:

• Degree in an IT, Engineering or Mathematics-related discipline
• Bash/Python/Java programming experience
• Experience of building/running connectivity platforms with exposure to exchange APIs and protocols

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Exposure to Low Latency trading application on Unix/Linux platforms Exposure to network connectivity investigation and diagnostics
• Experience of Equities Electronic Trading in a related front-office technology role within investment banking.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in London.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• 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..
• 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 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 to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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 be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.