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About Barclays

Barclays Bank provides financial services such as the issuance of credit cards, retail banking, wealth management, issuance of loans, investment, and corporate banking to its clients. 

Your role

Introduction:

The data engineering developer will help in delivering the Core Platform Engineering team’s activities which include, 

• Change Management - Perform the role of Change Manager on delivery teams ask where the resource must understand the task, properly describe it in the form of a change request and drive it through the process (creation, approval, implementation, testing, closing). The level of seniority needed depends on the quality of inputs.
• CI/CD development, management - Requires deep understanding of development tools and common principles like git-flow, etc.
• Software Patching (Linux, Java, Oracle, .... ) – This is a quite straightforward task, once set up. It is managed on a web page in a user-friendly UI. This is mostly about communication with stakeholders and the platform team about the schedule. Any issues unfortunately demand very good knowledge of Linux and networking from our side.
• Firewall opening to enable connectivity between systems 
• Resiliency, Security, Performance, Capacity, Lifecycle – Core Platform Team reviews the application platform from the point of view of these topics and raises any identified issues with the correct person who can help us. 
• Tech debt remediation – Core Platform team is driving the remediation of non-compliance in regard to technical standards that are reported to us by GTIS/GIS from their automated scans. 
• Communication with stakeholders – Taking to end users of the platform to understand what the real issue for them is and help in its timely resolution. 
• Keeping track of the task deadlines and Kanban board - This consists mostly of chasing the "tickets" and team members to respond to resources. 
• Testing/testing automation – Innovate and contribute to this space by taking on necessary tools evaluations and POCs. 
• Creating a knowledge base documentation on the current system setup and processes 
• Documenting Systems Audits information.

What will you be doing?

• Hands-on experience on any ETL tools like Ab Initio, Informatica, Data Stage, and Talend would be preferred.
• Familiarity with any data visualization tool like Tableau, QlikView, Python, or R is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in working with REST APIs.
• Familiarity with the Financial service domain.
• Hands-on experience in writing reusable code.
• Ability to understand requirements and design software solutions.
• Ability to analyze data and present the findings to the end users.
• Any certification in AWS, RDBMS, No-SQL, and Data Visualization & Reporting tools would be an additional advantage.

Training & development

At Barclays, each employee can go on a personalized learning journey that includes best-in-class digital content, as well as accessible, anywhere, anytime learning and development opportunities designed to support them in the jobs they do today and help them prepare for future opportunities. This learning, available in a variety of forms, aims to develop their technical job-specific skills, personal skills, and leadership skills.

Salary & benefits

The annual salary for the role at this company can range from INR 5.0 to INR 6.0 LPA. (Source: Ambition Box). Listed below are some benefits:

• Paid holiday and vacation
• Competitive pay
• Private medical care
• Disability assurance
• Flexible working
• Life assurance
• Voluntary benefits
• Retirement planning

Career progression

Barclays Bank is redefining the job roles and positions to be better positioned for banking in the digital age. They take its human resource seriously and aim to provide a rewarding experience for its employees. They offer Foundation and Higher Apprenticeship opportunities that freshers can take advantage of. They provide a wide range of career opportunities in a supportive work environment.

Work-life balance

They provide their employees, globally, to work flexibly and empower them to work in a way that suits their lives and enables them to better serve their customer's and client’s needs. Work days are usually from Monday to Friday. 

Culture & vibe

Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive, and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do, and celebrated for their contribution to their business and the community. They are an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. 

About you

To apply for this position, you must have;

What they’re looking for:

• As a developer, possess excellent Knowledge of distributed computing architecture, core Hadoop components (HDFS, Spark, Yarn, Map-Reduce, HIVE, Impala), AWS services, and related technologies.
• Technical Design and development of ETL/Hadoop and Analytics services /components.
• Contribute to end-to-end architecture and process flow.
• Understand the Business requirements and publish reusable designs.
• Result-oriented approach with the ability to provide apt solutions.
• Proficient in performance improvement & fine-tuning of ETL and Hadoop implementations.
• Can work independently with minimum supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience/Exposure to SQL, and advanced SQL skills.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 0-2 years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with at least one programming language (Unix Shell Scripting, Python or C or C++, or JAVA). 
• Strong understanding of distributed computing architecture especially the Hadoop ecosystem as to how it works and key Hadoop services (e.g. HDFS, Yarn, Map-Reduce, HIVE, Impala, Spark).
• Ability to write SQL for database queries involving joins, filters and sub-queries 
• Understanding of different AWS concepts & services like Availability Zones, Regions, VPC, EC2, S3, Athena, etc.
• Strong understanding of various data storage formats (CSV, Delimited files, Parquet, Avro, etc.).
• Strong understanding of different components of a Data Warehouse.
• Strong understanding of any one of ETL tools or technologies like Python, Spark, Ab Initio, Informatica, Data Stage, etc.
• Strong understanding or experience in automating jobs/workloads using any tool or language (even Unix Cron would do).
• Strong Understanding of Agile Project Delivery and different stages of SDLC.
• Strong understanding of NoSQL databases and their applicability.
• Very Good communication and organizational skills.
• Very Good analytical skills.
• Very good listener.
• Ability to raise requests in the Web portal based on instructions provided and track them to closure by coordinating activities with different teams.
• Ability to produce good presentations using Microsoft tools & technologies. 

How to apply

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