Barclays Investment Bank · 8 hours ago
Prime Risk Senior Developer - VP
745 7th Avenue, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $230K/yrBarclays Investment Bank is seeking a Prime Risk Senior Developer - VP to lead and manage engineering teams while driving the development of a modern Client Risk Management platform. The role involves overseeing risk analytics integration, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring high-quality software solutions are delivered in alignment with business objectives.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
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
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 escalate 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 accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes
Qualification
Required
Extensive software development experience in front office, quant or risk technology teams within investment banking or similar financial institution
Experience with derivative pricing and Greeks in either Equities, Rates or Credit asset classes
Experience with Python and Spark for distributed and real time data processing leveraging Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms
Experience with AWS services such as S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and RDS for scalable compute, containerized deployment of risk engines and real-time services
Considerable quantitative reasoning and software design skills
Deep understanding of SDLC practices including CI/CD, Dev Ops & Engineering practices
Preferred
Experience working with data warehouses, data lakes, and distributed data systems
Experience with prime brokerage / prime finance risk platforms or FO/MO risk tools (e.g., real‑time exposure, VaR/stress, PFE, or x‑asset risk engines)
Knowledge on Regulatory risk frameworks (Basel, FRTB, PRA, Fed)
Company
Barclays Investment Bank
Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions. It is a sub-organization of Barclays Corporate Banking.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
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