AddressFull Stack Java Developer
Glasgow
As a Barclays Full Stack Java Developer, you will get an exciting opportunity to create technology solutions to meet business requirements, in line with Cluster and Group IT Strategies and Architectures. In this role, you will be working with the relevant Project Manager, Lead Solutions Designer, or Technology Partner and ensuring that the outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original solution. Lastly, you will assist in the development of systems strategy and plan for the supported business area.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the UK, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, 'anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Creating technology solutions to meet business requirements, in line with Cluster and Group IT Strategies and Architectures
• Adding clarity to business requirements; challenges business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidate solutions are created
• Determining common or duplicative needs across SBU, Cluster & GTIS and ensuring that solutions adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies
• Working with the relevant Lead Solutions Designer and CTO, assisting in the creation of an appropriate IT Strategy for the relevant business area
• Supporting the Systems Planning process to ensure interdependencies are understood and that the proposed plan is viable and influence the relevant business strategy
• Keeping in close touch with, and contributes to current developments in the relevant technical specialism(s) within Technology, own industry and outside
What we're looking for:
• Familiar with integration and implementation issues and their architectural implications in IT Architecture
• Excellent understanding of best practice architectural and design methods with proven innovative and leading-edge thinking (e.g. Domain Driven Architecture, building)
• Technical Knowledge - Hands-on expertise in FULL Stack Java development technology including Core Java, J2ee, Angular JS or Similar UI framework for several years)
• Able to challenge stakeholders creatively &professionally to create solutions which meet all the above criteria, but which are not necessarily obvious responses to pre-defined
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Solid grasp of the different project methodologies, project lifecycles, major phases, dependencies and milestones within a project, and documentation needs
• Experienced with planning, estimating, staffing, organizing, and working on multiple projects and has monitored and dealt with critical paths and risks areas
• Good knowledge of concepts of service delivery and support and how this can be affected by technical delivery
Where will you be working?
Our 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 support the 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 ties with the city and its communities.
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