Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To  lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

• 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.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our Central Limit Hub, CLH and OTC Client Clearing technology platforms. You will support a talented global engineering team responsible for delivering low-latency, business-critical solutions that support real-time trade approvals, risk monitoring, and limit monitoring across multiple asset classes. This role offers a unique opportunity to work directly with Front Office, Risk, Operations and Technology guidance while driving platform modernization, AI adoption, and the expansion of strategic limit guidance across Barclays Liquid Financing Markets business. If you are passionate about building scalable platforms, mentoring high-performing teams, and solving highly detailed trading and risk tasks, then this is your role.

To be successful as a Limits & OTC Trading Technology Lead - VP you should have:

• Considerable experience in Financial Markets Technology, with deep knowledge in Limits Oversight, OTC Trading, Client Clearing, Risk Monitoring, and related capital markets domains.

• Established experience supporting engineering, delivery, or platform teams, with the ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.

• Ample experience designing and building enterprise platforms, data architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.

• Considerable software engineering ability, particularly in Java, with experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive innovation.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder collaboration, and influencing skills, with a demonstrated ability to deliver complex technology solutions in fast-paced environments

Other highly valued skills include:

• Knowledge of Portfolio Margin, House Margin, Regulatory Margin, Exposure Monitoring, and Collateral Administration

• Understanding of MiFID III and broader regulatory programs impacting financial markets

• Knowledge building real-time, low-latency trading or risk monitoring platforms

• Experience driving platform modernization, cloud adoption, or AI-enabled transformation efforts

• Working across globally distributed teams and delivering highly detailed programmed across multiple regions

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York, NY office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000
Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.