Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; City of Niagara Falls (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in New York, NY is seeking a senior leader to drive the Limits & OTC Trading technology strategy. You will shape the Central Limit Hub and OTC Client Clearing platforms, lead a global engineering team, and deliver low-latency, real-time solutions across multiple asset classes.

The role requires deep domain expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate with Front Office, Risk, and Operations. Salary ranges from $170,000 to $230,000 with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in financial markets technology and capital markets domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams, mentor, and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Financial markets technology

Limits oversight

OTC trading

Risk monitoring

Enterprise platforms design

Java

AI adoption

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Java

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives. Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget. Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement. Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity. Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development. Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

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.

Strategic Direction for Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our Central Limit Hub, CLH and OTC Client Clearing technology platforms. You will support a talented global engineering team responsible for delivering low-latency, business-critical solutions that support real-time trade approvals, risk monitoring, and limit monitoring across multiple asset classes. This role offers a unique opportunity to work directly with Front Office, Risk, Operations and Technology guidance while driving platform modernization, AI adoption, and the expansion of strategic limit guidance across Barclays Liquid Financing Markets business. If you are passionate about building scalable platforms, mentoring high-performing teams, and solving highly detailed trading and risk tasks, then this is your role.

To be successful as a Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP you should have:

• Considerable experience in Financial Markets Technology, with deep knowledge in Limits Oversight, OTC Trading, Client Clearing, Risk Monitoring, and related capital markets domains.
• Established experience supporting engineering, delivery, or platform teams, with the ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
• Ample experience designing and building enterprise platforms, data architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Considerable software engineering ability, particularly in Java, with experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder collaboration, and influencing skills, with a demonstrated ability to deliver complex technology solutions in fast-paced environments.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Knowledge of Portfolio Margin, House Margin, Regulatory Margin, Exposure Monitoring, and Collateral Administration
• Understanding of MiFID III and broader regulatory programs impacting financial markets
• Knowledge building real-time, low-latency trading or risk monitoring platforms
• Experience driving platform modernization, cloud adoption, or AI-enabled transformation efforts
• Working across globally distributed teams and delivering highly detailed programmed across multiple regions

This role is located in New York, NY office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.