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Company

Barclays

Location

Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

Developer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Developer, you will work on implementation of logic used to detect Financial Crime activities across large-scale data sets. The tasks will involve sourcing the data, preparing the data for ingestion, processing the data into networks, implementing scoring models to produce alerts and working on external integrations. Majority of the development will utilize the Scala programming language across Spark (on Hadoop) and deployed on Cloudera platform.

Barclays is one of the world's 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 creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

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
We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning 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. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What you’ll be doing?
• Implementing new functionality that will be used to detect all kinds of financial crime activities
  • Providing accurate estimates to develop well-engineered code that meets acceptance criteria
  • Working closely with other team members in a globally-distributed team and providing support for the live applications
  • Conducting code reviews, provide constructive feedback, take ownership for code quality
  • Being responsible for automate and execute releases to both Production and non-production environments
  • Contributing to the development of Barclays Compliance DevOps best-practices
  • Participating in Agile ceremonies, delivering on goals agreed for each sprint
  • Contributing to the evolution of the end-to-end architecture of the platform
What we’re looking for:
• A Software engineering mind-set and desire to provide robust scalable and data oriented solutions. A good working knowledge on Spark, HDFS, HIVE and Impala
  • Good understanding on NoSQL databases like Hive, Impala, Hbase etc. and experience in designing and engineering solutions in Scala, Java or Python
  • Good experience in Using Apache Spark (Cloudera/Databricks/Hortonworks)
  • Past experience of developing and deploying production Level Big data solutions and experience working with modern CI/CD pipelines like Git, Jenkins etc.
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience deploying applications to run on Apache Hadoop
  • Previous experience deploying applications on Docker containers
  • Experience delivering solutions in an Agile environment
  • Experience in working on Cloud Infrastructure at an enterprise level and exposure to Data Analytics and Machine Learning would be an added advantage

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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