eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Barclays Global Investors (US)

• Location

  San Francisco, CA, 94105

• Compensation

  base plus bonus

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  03 Sep 2008

• eFC Ref no

  427673

Securities Lending Trading Application Developer

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.

Primary Responsibilities

Design, implement, test and deploy technical solutions that satisfy business requirements

Relationship management: build strong working partnerships with business and technology team members

Proactively identify and address changing business needs

Partner with Securities Lending business users to analyze business requirements

Proactively support application in production by quickly identifying and fixing production issues

Consistently write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications

Run and monitor performance tests on new and existing software for the purposes of correcting mistakes, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging

Administer diagnostic analysis of test results and deliver solutions to critical areas

Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, programmers, and other software engineers to resolve any defects in supported applications.

Qualifications

Experience in object-oriented analysis/design (5+ years)

Experience in Java – fundamentals (4+ years)

Experience in Java – J2EE (3+ years)

Experience developing client/server, distributed systems (3+ years)

Experience in SQL – Sybase of equivalent RDBMS (3+ years)

Experience supporting business-critical systems (2+ years)

Spring/Hibernate experience preferred

Experience with JUnit/EasyMock

Experience in Agile Development methodology or Extreme Programming derivatives

Experience in financial application development preferred