Technology Lead - AVP

barclays; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Services Corp. seeks a Technology Lead - AVP in Whippany, NJ to design, develop, and maintain Java Spring Boot-based applications and microservices supporting financial crime transaction monitoring systems.

The role will design and support AWS cloud environments, implement end-to-end CI/CD with GitLab, and leverage Databricks with Python/PySpark for data processing and analytics, ensuring performance, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions.
• Strong collaboration with product managers, designers, and engineers.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java Spring Boot-based applications and microservices.
• Design, implement, and support AWS cloud environments for workloads.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab across AWS environments.
• Utilize Databricks with Python and PySpark for data processing and analytics.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

GitLab

Python

PySpark

Databricks

Microservices

Tools

GitLab

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• 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.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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 source such as procedures and practises (eng?) ...

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.

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Technology Lead - AVP in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Design, develop, and maintain Java Spring Boot-based applications and microservices supporting financial crime transaction monitoring systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design, implement, and support AWS cloud environments for application workloads, including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and security services; perform end to end setup and configuration across development, testing, and production environments; implement AWS native logging and monitoring; and investigate production issues through root cause analysis and corrective actions to maintain application and infrastructure controls.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, supporting automated builds, testing, infrastructure deployment, and controlled releases across AWS environments.
• Utilize Databricks as a data processing and analytics platform to develop and execute Python and PySpark-based workloads, support