QPS RTB Engineer

Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients. Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency. Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

Join us as a Service Engineer at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with technical support, continuous service improvement, infrastructure architecture and project management ,as well as job-specific technical skills.

Overall purpose of role

The role of QPS Trading RTB Engineer carries responsibility for the provision of high quality, bespoke support of the Electronic Trading plant which underpins the Cash Equity and QPS (Quantitative Prime Services) businesses.  This role encompasses technical support, continuous service improvement, infrastructure architecture and project management. A brief description of the role.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide support for QPS applications.

• Develop specialist knowledge in relevant systems, sharing that knowledge, as required, with global teams.

• Liaise with Business users and IT counterparts on potential process improvements.

•Liaise with development teams on future applications and improvements

•Take ownership of issues through to resolution or escalation, as appropriate.

•Pro-actively improve the quality of systems and service, and increase business value

•Undertake projects as required, including, but not restricted to, the following areas: - capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, web based tools, reporting and documentation.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• The role will involve liaising with senior leads in Front-Office, Operations, Compliance and other functions on (amongst other things) Risk and Control, Production Performance, Incident, Problem and Change.

• The person will be expected to ensure stability, supportability and deployment efficiency is delivered as part of the SDLC by working with Development leads, Project Managers and Business analysts.

• As a key technical contributor, the role will involve building and maintaining a culture of operational and technical excellence throughout the team. This section should be used to detail the key stakeholders and relationships the role will interact with, both internally and externally.  Describe the type of interpersonal skills the role will require.  Roles with leadership accountabilities should detail the nature and breadth of leadership. 

Decision-making and Problem Solving

The role will involve ensuring stability and availability of mission critical, time-sensitive trading systems in a fast paced environment.

This role is based in Pune.