Lead Application Developer

Job Description

As a Barclays Lead Application Developer you will be a thought leader, seen as the SME in previous roles and with a background in developing enterprise scale applications on various hosting environments. The role involves secondments to mission criticalprogrammes throughout Barclays Group with a specific focus on engineering for resilience. You will be embedded in engineering teams, working with developers ensuring resilience patterns & development best practices are deployed within those platforms. Barclays is one of the worlds 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 creatingfinancial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. Were committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity forall our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers and clients needs. Whether you have family commitments or youre a carer, or whether you need studytime or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to businessneeds. We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means 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. Were flexible on how thisworks and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may chooseto spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances.Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager. What will you be doing Embedded within engineering teams across the organisation, ensuring best in class application design is baked into group wide mission critical applications Working with controls teams such as the Group Resilience Standard and building patterns and reference implementations to support those standards Progressing development practices and resilience strategy by delivering guidance, patterns, and reference implementations onto a new global developer guidance platform Conducting application assessments with confidence, structuring and leading failure mode analysis assessments across the firm to identify fault-points/modes Curating content, supported by patterns and reference implementations Acting as the subject matter expert and thought leader within the engineering team Implementing good software engineering practices What were looking for: Developers experience in implementing resilience disciplines across a full stack (code, database, network, hosting environment, security, monitoring & deployment) Experience in deploying applications across multiple datacentres/availability zones/regions Familiarity with resiliency testing techniques such as Failure Injection and Chaos Testing Knowledge of deployment techniques that limit impact of failure (e.g. blue/green & canary) and enable fast recovery with low MTTD & MTTR Inc. use of playbooks and automation Skills that will help you in the role: Knowledge of enterprise patterns, micro services and passionate view on the future direction of technology is an absolute must Extensive experience in modern SDLC strategies, Agile development, DevOps, CICD etc Good communication skills are essential as the role involves dealing with stakeholders, system owners and the departments project managers Experience in leadership Where will you be workingOur new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will supportthe community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our tieswith the city and its communities. #LI - Hybrid #software