Large Holdings Dev

Job Title :Large Holdings Dev
Location: Pune

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

We’re 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 for all 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 you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

Hybrid Working
Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:

- End to end project delivery through Agile teams
- Providing coaching and ensuring the adaption of Agile & DevOps methodologies to the wider team and department.
- Working with development manager to agree release schedules.
- Providing regular updates to the development manager and stakeholders regarding progress.
- Partnering with the Production Support, analysing issues and addressing user queries.

What will you be doing?

This section should include:
Analysis:

- Facilitate Sprint Planning and Product Backlog meetings.
- Assist as required in the requirements analysis for system enhancements and changes.
- Demonstrate good development domain knowledge with experience of different domains, utilities and experience to recommend appropriate technologies.
- Assist or lead analysis of production issues with production support team.
- Assess team readiness for Agile and proactively manage any gaps to ensure good Agile delivery.

Design:

- Interpret and understand functional specifications. Work with Business Analysts, Transformations partners and end users in order to provide clarity around complex concepts.
- Design of physical data model from data model.
- Creation of technical design documents adhering to predefined standards.
- Organisation and retention of project-level, system-level, task-level and defect information.
- Defining efficient processes to baseline the code to manage build activities using continues integration across concurrent workstreams.

Implementation / Coding:

- Implement, act and asses team delivery utilizing the appropriate the DevOps tools
- Establish the KPI and metrics to help establish a baseline for transition and measure progress.
- Facilitate daily stand ups, retrospectives and product demos
- Hands on development of high-quality (i.e. readable, optimal and supportable) code, delivering the functionality detailed in the technical specifications
- Hands on development using Java/J2EE technologies delivering the functionality described in the technical specifications.
- Secondary development activities using Oracle / PL-SQL
- Integration of different levels and technology stacks within the Large Holdings implementations.
- Ensuring code written meets the predefined company and department standards
- Conduct regular meetings to ensure that team are meeting expectations and that potential risks and challenges are well understood.

Performance Tuning:

- Demonstrate strong knowledge of J2EE/Web technologies to implement appropriate performance optimizations in Java and refactor the system as appropriate to meet the long-term performance and volume objectives of the system as they change over time.
- Ensure that up-to-date tools and platforms are used in the Large Holding Systems. Oversee migration initiatives, where necessary, in order to upgrade the underlying technologies.
- Trouble-shooting performance and functional problems
- Incorporation of non-functional requirements in the implementation to reduce the technical debt.

Quality Assurance:

- Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback across the team.
- Mentor junior members within and outside of the team. Identify appropriate training needs.
- Document and archive QA approach, findings, and innovations.
- Lead test-driven development approaches as appropriate.

Testing:

- Design and implementation of automated unit test cases.
- Execution of unit test cases, resolution of defects, and documentation of results
- Providing support