Director - Senior Sales Strat - Front Office Platform

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Experience of designing, building and supporting user facing analytics functionality in a front office sales environment.
• Experience of system and API design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Experience of commercial software development in a shared codebase with multiple developers.
• Hands-on programming in Python.
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks.
• Experience of liaising directly with front office users in sales or trading.
• Experience with data science and visualization.

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing models and tools for pricing, analysis, and risk management for consumption by sales or trading users.
• Market/product knowledge in one or more asset classes.

Purpose of the Role:

We are seeking an experienced quant developer to lead the development of a cross-asset analytics platform for front office sales, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives. This is a hands-on software development role. The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders and users to define requirements, implement back-end and UI components in partnership with technology teams, and ensure consistency with other firm-wide initiatives. This role offers significant exposure to senior management and very strong communication skills are essential.

Accountabilities:

• Deliver a cross-asset front office analytics platform to sales personnel.
• Engagement with sales users and senior stakeholders in sales and trading businesses.
• Interact with senior management to report progress and suggest strategic direction.
• Design of the system and the associated APIs.
• Hands-on development of backend and front-end components, focusing on Python and React.
• Ensure that the platform aligns with Barclays' strategic initiatives by collaborating with partners in the Technology organization.

The role requires both evaluative judgement and analytical skills. In particular, it will require:

• A methodical aptitude for problem solving.
• Ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to adapt to change and work in a fast-changing environment.
• Initiative to spot potential problems and find innovative ways to solve them.
• Ability to balance tactical and strategic solutions in line with the overall needs of the bank.

Director Expectations:

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
• For an individual contributor, lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally.
• Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.