Job Description

Job Totle : Credit Sanctioning Senior 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 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. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager. Introduction: SW (Sanctioning Workflow) is a strategic client credit grading and sanctioning platform, which is being developed to replace a suite of legacy applications across investment and corporate bank.
GCIS2(Group Credit Information System) is the legacy credit risk sanctioning platform.
The successful candidate will be a development team member within the GCIS and SW agile team, participating in all aspects of the development process, including interaction with Product owner, user story analysis, technical design, implementation, code-reviews, testing, production deployment, and L3 support.
What will you be doing?

• Software development using C++, C#, SQL Server.
• Delivering solutions within a DevOps environment with a focus on automation of testing and deployment via standardised framework.
• Working closely with global development team members in other regions, participating in and contributing to technical discussions.
• Communicate effectively with the local development manager and team.
• Responding promptly to requests from the RTB support team in order to resolve user queries and handle technical issues that are out of scope for the support staff.
• Making technical updates to reduce the manual support overhead for the system.
• Working with BAs and Team Leads to understand the functional scope of project work, questioning decisions and collaborating with end-users to ensure that business needs are met on a timely basis.
• Drafting initial design proposals for reviews by team leads and architects, and contributing to detailed technical specifications where appropriate.
• Liaising with the Design authority and IT teams in other regions to ensure that all new components fit within guiding principles.
• Following good processes and practices, as defined by the team standards; ensuring that documentation is complete, comprehensive and signed off.
• Implement and test technical solutions from specifications to both new and existing systems.
• Ensuring code written meets the predefined company and department standards
• Involvement in peer reviews with more senior team members in order to provide constructive feedback
• Creating and maintaining unit tests with an aim for 80% code coverage
• Liaising with a test team to provide support during SIT, QA and UAT test phases
• Diagnosis and resolution of defects found during SIT, QA and UAT test phases
• Supporting regression testing.
• Following established process and practices with regards to source code management and audit controls.
• Writing release plans and coordinating release walkthroughs with the environment managers and RTB teams
• Acting as a point of contact for support team, investigating and resolving issues found in production following minor releases
• Providing on-call support for minor releases

What we’re looking for:

• Software development expertise using

C++, COM, RPC, Win32 AND C#, .Net Core, Web API, SQL Server,.

• A degree in engineering, computer science or a quantitative discipline e.g. statistics, physics or mathematics, commerce preferred.
• Practical experience in full software development lifecycle using Agile methods.
• Hands on experience with Git or other source code control tools.
• Proven analytical skills, including ability to investigate and resolve issues in a high-pressure environment.
• Beneficial: General understanding of the credit risk market.

Skills that will help you in the role

• Willingness to broaden skill sets and learn a secondary technology where necessary.
• Willingness and capacity to learn complex financial concepts relevant to the role.

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 everyone's 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.