Cross Market Data Science Application Support Lead

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

As an Application Support Lead, You will offer support to the cross asset Data Science Platform. You will be supporting global systems that interact with other trading and operational systems. Also, analysing complex issues ranging across multiple technologies and applications. This is to ensure stability and supportability by working with Development leads and Project Managers. The role will involve building and maintaining a culture of operational and technical excellence throughout the team.

Hybrid Working

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Providing strong leadership within the cross asset support team
• Offering direct support for the data science platform and its users, market data issues, and electronic trading processing
• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production incidents
• Working in a collaborative, fast paced, dynamic environment participating in project implementations, leading triage calls
• Developing new strategies and procedures to increase efficiency and enhance troubleshooting methods and driving process improvements and automation
• Coordinating with business leads, application development, multiple infrastructure teams to upgrade, replace existing hardware, operating systems and technologies
• Supporting all bank-wide security and infrastructure projects
• Liaising with senior front-office leads across asset classes, product, application development, and other functions on risk and control, production performance

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with UNIX, SQL (Oracle, Impala) and ITIL - Incident, Change
• Proficient to run MIM (Major Incident Management) calls.
• Knowledge of command line or scripting (BASH/Python) and Autosys, Airflow

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Understanding of financial markets (any of Equities, FX, Rates, Credit, etc)
• Troubleshooting capability, analytical skills; ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple priorities
• Big Data (Spark, Hadoop/Cloudera ecosystem), Oracle, Kx/KDB
• Knowledge of AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, JIRA, Confluence and ServiceFrist