Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure.  Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response. 

Accountabilities

• Build Engineering:  Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
• Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Automation:  Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
• Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
• Teamwork:  Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
• Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

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 Senior Market Data Operations Engineer.  At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly evolving environment, playing a key role in shaping Barclays' strategic response to exchange, regulatory, and market-driven initiatives. You will serve as a critical point of escalation for complex technical issues relating to market data vendors, working closely with both internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure timely resolution and minimal business disruption. In addition, you will contribute significantly to the design and architecture of the technology infrastructure that underpins Barclays' next generation of trading platforms, helping to drive innovation, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence across the firm's electronic trading ecosystem.

 To be successful as a Senior Market Data Operations Engineer you should:

• Demonstrate deep expertise in global exchange market data technologies, including feed specifications, protocols, message formats, and transport mechanisms across major exchanges and trading venues

• Provide advanced support and engineering expertise for low-latency market data infrastructure, with hands-on experience managing and optimizing vendor platforms and APIs such as Exegy, LSEG, and Redline

• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and optimize low-latency trading environments across the full technology stack, from network infrastructure and operating systems through to application performance and market data consumption

• Partner effectively with technology, business, and external market participants to ensure Barclays' market data strategy and platform capabilities remain aligned with exchange-driven changes and industry-wide initiatives

• Leverage considerable software development and infrastructure skills, including proficiency in C/C++, Java, and Python, alongside experience with packet capture and analysis tools (Corvil, Wireshark, P2D) and high-performance networking technologies such as RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand

 Other highly valued skills include:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation solutions using Linux scripting and Ansible to streamline infrastructure management, improve operational efficiency, and support large-scale production environments

• Implement and support enterprise monitoring, observability, and logging platforms leveraging open-source technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, and Observe to ensure platform reliability, performance, and proactive incident management

• Drive software delivery and infrastructure automation through GitOps methodologies, utilizing GitLab CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent deployments, version control best practices, and scalable operational workflows

• Leverage AI-powered coding assistants and design agentic AI workflows to accelerate development activities, improve engineering productivity, and enable intelligent automation across technology and operational processes

• Support and optimize critical Market Data applications running on containerized platforms, including Kubernetes and Podman, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance, and resilience for business-critical trading environments

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 our Whippany, NJ 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.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.