Embark on a transformative journey as a Sr. Platform Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions to provide world class platform products that will enable the Barclays Fraud Engineering team. In this role, you will be developing applications with machine learning components to support Barclay’s fraud technology. Additionally, you will get the opportunity to work with latest Cloud technologies and Java/other languages in an agile environment to achieve the right results.
To be successful as a Sr. Platform Engineer, you should have:
A master’s in computer science
An understanding on Cloud Technologies (E.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
Experience working with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud - One of the three)
DevOps understanding and experience with Jenkins, Chef, CI/CD, GitLab, Containerization - Docker/Kubernetes, Graphana, ELK
An understanding in one of the following programming languages: Python, Java or C++
Other highly valued skills include:
Fraud Machine Learning
Fraud Domain Understanding
Leadership
Team Player
Communication
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is located in Whippany, New Jersey.
Purpose of the role
To implement data quality process and procedures, ensuring that data is reliable and trustworthy, then extract actionable insights from it to help the organisation improve its operation, and optimise resources.
Accountabilities
- Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.
- Execution of data cleansing and transformation tasks to prepare data for analysis.
- Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
- Development and application of advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning and AI, to solve complex business problems.
- Documentation of data quality findings and recommendations for improvement.
Analyst Expectations
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- 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 and will be guided by precedents.
- 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.
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.
