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Equities Trading System Engineer

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United Kingdom , Glasgow

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Job Description:

Join Barclays as a Equities Trading System Engineer, where you'll provide real-time support to Front Office users and maintains the performance of our trading platform, enabling Barclays to serve clients without disruption, ensuring system stability, addresses technical issues promptly, and works on improving the functionality and efficiency of our trading platform

Job Responsibility:

  • Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients
  • Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders
  • Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance
  • Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing
  • Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes
  • Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management
  • Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues
  • Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency
  • Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur
  • Provide real-time support to Front Office users and maintains the performance of our trading platform, enabling Barclays to serve clients without disruption, ensuring system stability, addresses technical issues promptly, and works on improving the functionality and efficiency of our trading platform

Requirements:

  • Technical Troubleshooting
  • Risk and Control
  • Strategic Thinking
  • IT Incident management
  • Change and Transformation
  • Business Acumen
  • In-depth technical knowledge and experience in assigned area of expertise
  • Thorough understanding of underlying principles and concepts within area of expertise
  • Ability to lead and supervise a team, guide and support professional development, allocate work requirements and coordinate team resources
  • Ability to develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate
  • Ability to partner with other functions and business areas
  • Ability to take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls
  • Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function
  • Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function
  • Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail
  • Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience
  • Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information
  • Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

Nice to have:

  • IT Incident management
  • Change and Transformation
  • Business Acumen
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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