.NET Application Developer

Job description

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.
With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organization.

Global Technology
Across Infrastructure Services and Functions Transformation we deliver the technology that underpins what our colleagues do, how they work and how we service our clients.
The firm's core management of Risk, Finance and Treasury is underpinned by the systems supported within Global Technology.

Overall purpose of role
· Work as part of an application development and 3rd line support team, contributing to team projects and developing applications and services.
· Understand and contribute to a service oriented architecture, focusing at all times on innovation, reusability and driving down the costs and time taken to deliver, maintain and support applications. Be able to manage your own time and workload, and make informed decisions based on available facts.
· Be able to contribute to, and work from technical design documents, plan and estimate work allocation and work in an agile development environment.
Key Accountabilities
· Work to and contribute to solution design documents, translating business requirements into technical designs that can be used to effectively build applications.
· Develop, work to, refine and implement world class standards across the team.
· Consume and produce data from a variety of sources, outputting where necessary to downstream applications, or updating the source.
· Design, develop and deliver innovative and tactical solutions to benefit the finance community.
· Identify and resolve problems, working closely with the business and support teams.
· Understand and implement agile methodologies.
· Be able to contribute to status updates, and own risk or issues to give early visibility of problems.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
· Interact with project managers and team leads to understand and update on deliverables
· Interact with service management community to evidence adherence to project controls, such as test completion reports
· Work closely with 2nd line teams, contributing towards incident and problem resolution, as well as continuous service improvement initiatives.
Decision-making and Problem Solving
Ability to troubleshoot and find solutions to technical problems – you should be able to clearly communicate these to 2nd and 1st line support areas to help build up an effective knowledge base and increase 1st line resolution statistics.

Person Specification

Your Skills and Qualifications should include:
· Strong knowledge of C# object-oriented programming language and techniques.
· Understanding of developing applications using industry tools and practices:
· Working from, and contributing to, user stories;
· Creating unit tests, TDD and BDD;
· Working to agile methodologies; preparing tasks against user stories and being able to deliver in sprints;
· Extreme programming.
· Some working knowledge and experience of SQL databases, specifically:
· Writing efficient SQL queries to access data from application layer;
· Clear understanding of indexing and normal forms.
It is not required but would be very beneficial to have some of these skills, experience or knowledge:
· Programming:
· Asp.net/MVC;
· JavaScript, JQuery;
· LINQ, Entity Framework;
· WCF;
· PowerShell;
· Microsoft Fakes;
· Selenium.
· Tools, systems or services:
· MSTest, MSBuild;
· TeamCity or Jenkins;
· Git;
· Unix/Linux;
· Windows Server 2012/2016;
· AWS and other cloud technologies (Azure, etc.);
· CA Release Automation (Nolio), Nexus, Sonar;
· Chef.
· Understanding ways of working:
· Agile;
· Lean;
· DevOps;
· ITIL;
· ISO 27001, SOX.
· Knowledge of patterns, including, but not limited to:
· Gang of Four;
· Dependency Injection;
· CQRS;
· Event Sourcing.

The Benefits: Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed.
Our Culture: Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.
Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. For more detailed information, please visit our dedicated Diversity and Inclusion site here .
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

Purpose and Values
Barclays has a single cross-business Purpose for Barclays and five core Values which underpin it.
Our Purpose is helping people achieve their ambitions in the right way. Put simply this is the answer to the question ‘What is Barclays for?' and it should guide our every action as employees.

Respect
We respect and value those we work with, and the contribution that they make.
Integrity
We act fairly, ethically and openly in all we do.
Service
We put our clients and customers at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We use our energy, skills and resources to deliver the best, sustainable results.
Stewardship
We are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.