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Data and Software Engineer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Data and Software Engineer, you will work on multiple projects or modules to understand requirements, develop and implement Ab>Initio, Hadoop & MongoDB based batch and real time integration solutions and maintaining them. In this role, you will also be building Cloud based Ab>Initio framework & automation solutions, along with migration of on-prem ETL applications on to Cloud infrastructure.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Comprehending the agile development methodology and practicing it in day to day work
• Contributing to cost and effort estimation
• Devising ETL/API based strategy and providing solution design options for disparate data integration applications
• Designing and implementing ETL/API solutions with massively parallel processing architecture
• Undertaking analysis of change requests / incidents against applications / products within domain
• Leading story based development & unit test and adherence to all coding standards
• Ensuring delivery of high quality code that achieves consistently high code quality and testing coverage ratings
• Participating and contributing to relevant technical standards
• Reporting progress in JIRA against assigned activities in a timely manner

What we’re looking for:

• Solid knowledge or experience of: Databases – Both Traditional Relational DBMS & NoSQL
• Understanding of Big Data/Hadoop/Cloud based Ecosystem/ Unix & Shell Scripting
• Knowledge of ETL Tools/Technologies such as Ab>Initio/Talend/Informatica/Datastage/Spark
• Experience in Job Scheduling/ RESTful APIs implementation

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Data modelling knowledge
• Knowledge or experience of Deployment on Cloud
• Knowledge or experience of Containerisation
• Knowledge or experience of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Pipelines

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one – by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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