AWS Developer

Job Title: AWS Developer
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
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

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. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
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.

Introduction:

Working within a development team providing design, coding, and unit testing services for Data Platform team within the Data and Analytics cluster. This group is responsible for building out a data platform that is at the heart of a multi-year, multi-million Pounds technology transformation programme. The group will use multiple technologies including Java, Data Warehouse and leading Cloud technologies and tools to create a data platform that consolidates data from multiple sources, transform the data models and then produce various data marts which will be hosted in a Cloud infrastructure (AWS).

This vacancy is specifically for a key technical member of the team who will be able to lead and contribute to building this data platform. More specifically, the Java service tier to the data platform and our Java utilities. 

What will you be doing?

• Leading the design process of building and evolving the data domains on the data platform.
• Perform technical lead duties within Data Platform Integration domain scrum 
• Ensuring all resiliency, observability, supportability, security and operational readiness requirements are met.
• Acting as a Data domain SME and point of contact and escalation for the development team.
• Producing and maintaining application code, unit testing code. 
• Produce and review development plans. 
• Manage development issues, escalating when appropriate. 
• Attend project meetings representing Development team. 
• Undertake Peer reviews. 
• Act as reference point for technical queries within Development area. 

What we’re looking for:

• Personal Competencies
o Proven leadership of technical intiatives
o Has a passion for technology and improving technology services
o Self-driven, proactive and demonstrates initiative with strong problem solving abilities. 
o Strongly collaborative in nature with the ability to see the whole picture
o Highly communicative and influential, able to manage conflict
o Confident and assertive in nature

Skills that will help you in the role:

o Ability to be forward-thinking and be able to analyse and anticipate project, technology and team solutions to ensure successful project delivery
o Ability to take ownership of a technical solution, build new things without needing close supervision, learn and apply new tools and technologies, solve problems without needing constant help, make consistent daily progress on design and build.
o Strong knowledge of AWS development
o Strong knowledge of AWS services ( Lambda, Glue, ECS, Step Functions, IAM roles, Lakeformation, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, EC2,Security Groups, Cloudformation, VPC, Cloud Watch, AWS Auto Scaling, Cloud Trail, Service Catalog)
o Experience in building efficient data pipelines using AWS services. 
o Excellent hands-on technology skills on working with real-time applications including kafka technologies
o Demonstrable working knowledge on different file formats XML, JSON, Iceberg, Parquet, HUDI
o Proven ability to design and develop enterprise level software solutions using tools and techniques such as Source Control, Build Tools (e.g. Maven), TDD, Jenkins etc. 

The role holder must be a strong computer scientist with a good appreciation of data structures and other fundamentals.

o Experience working with Agile software development teams with onsite, offshore and remote team members
o BigData / Data Warehouse experience 
o RDS, DynamoDB, Alation
o SQLserver – ability to write advanced TSQL stored procedures, sql skills, schema design, query tuning etc
o Very Strong and hands on in Spark preferably using Scala or Java
o Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using Chef.
o Build the AWS environment through automated scripts using Cloudformation. 

Education Qualification:
o Graduated preferably with a technology based degree

Where will you be working?
Pune
Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyones contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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