Jobs at Barclays

Develops and implements structured financial products, including equity derivatives, exotics, structured notes, and QIS strategies. Structures and prices products using volatility models, quantitative pricing frameworks, and risk analytics. Partners with Sales, Trading, and Risk teams to create tailored client solutions, assess hedging and market risks, conduct QIS backtesting, and improve pricing infrastructure. The role also supports regulatory compliance, risk controls, policy development, stakeholder communication, and team leadership.

Advise senior leaders and HR partners on complex employee relations matters, including investigations, grievances, disciplinary actions, performance management, accommodations, restructurings, and reductions in force. Develop and maintain compliant ER policies, deliver preventive training, produce workforce metrics, and provide strategic recommendations to mitigate legal and reputational risk across the Americas business.

Conduct credit research on investment-grade pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, analyzing financial statements, company performance, industry developments, and market trends. Develop investment theses, research reports, and actionable fixed-income insights for institutional clients. Present research to clients, collaborate with Markets and internal stakeholders, and ensure compliant delivery while managing risk, controls, and team responsibilities.

Conduct equity research on software companies and related technology sectors by analyzing market, economic, corporate, and financial data. Develop investment theses, valuation models, research reports, and recommendations. Present findings to institutional clients and internal stakeholders, collaborate with Markets and Compliance teams, monitor risks and controls, and potentially lead projects or mentor junior analysts.

Support Corporate and Investment Bank wholesale client onboarding through KYC processing, due diligence document collection, case coordination, reporting, issue resolution, and client readiness. Collaborate with Front Office, Operations, Product, and support teams to manage onboarding journeys, mitigate risks, strengthen controls, and improve processes. Lead or contribute to change initiatives, develop procedures and performance reports, communicate findings to stakeholders, and coordinate multiple workstreams in a deadline-driven environment.

Develop and publish differentiated mortgage-backed securities research for internal and external clients. Analyze mortgage, fixed-income, macroeconomic, consumer, credit, and market data to identify investment opportunities, risks, and trends. Present actionable strategies and insights to clients, traders, sales teams, and stakeholders. Collaborate with compliance and supervisory teams to ensure compliant research production. The role also involves advising stakeholders, managing risk, guiding research initiatives, and mentoring less experienced colleagues.

Lead and perform transaction-level audit testing and analytics across finance, risk, treasury, technology, and data. Design and execute data-driven testing, assess control effectiveness against regulatory and accounting standards, identify risks, communicate findings, and support remediation. Coach or collaborate with teams and influence stakeholders to strengthen controls and compliance.

Provide compliance oversight for securitized products, identifying risks and ensuring adherence to legal and regulatory standards. Collaborate across teams to mitigate risks and support compliance processes.

Leads evaluation, structuring, negotiation, and execution of risk-transfer, portfolio optimization, strategic partnership, and corporate development transactions. Develops financial models, valuations, business cases, and capital-impact analyses; coordinates due diligence and cross-functional execution; manages external counterparties and advisors; oversees post-execution transaction performance; and advises senior leadership on capital efficiency, risk, returns, regulatory considerations, and strategic opportunities.

Lead engineering teams delivering a strategic client-reporting platform for Barclays. Provide technical direction, mentorship, process improvements, risk management, and delivery oversight. Translate business requirements into technical solutions while enforcing engineering standards, testing, and governance. The role requires Java and Python development, Power BI reporting, database expertise, and knowledge of quantitative strategies, indices, and equity or commodity derivatives. Preferred experience includes workflow orchestration, team leadership, front-office collaboration, Docker, cloud, Kubernetes, and KDB.

Provides senior legal support to Barclays’ global Markets business, advising on trading activities, legal and reputational risks, regulatory compliance, derivatives, securities financing, close-out netting, collateral arrangements, and regulatory capital requirements. The role involves legal research, document creation and review, regulatory risk management, stakeholder advice, legal training, policy development, and support for litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.

Leads the global Prime Derivatives Services Operations organization, overseeing clearing, listed and OTC derivatives, FX prime brokerage, treasury, collateral, client money, and client service. Owns operational risk, regulatory compliance, resilience, transformation, automation, strategic planning, cost management, and outsourced relationships. Partners with senior business leaders, clients, technology, risk, regulators, CCPs, and market participants while developing global operating standards, talent, succession, and service excellence.

Execute trades, price liquidity, and manage risk across emerging markets portfolios. Apply quantitative analysis, mathematical and statistical modeling, and technology to optimize trading strategies, pricing, and risk decisions. Research market trends, maintain analytical libraries supporting front-office infrastructure, collaborate with sales on client solutions, and provide quantitative subject-matter expertise to improve trading processes and controls.

Develops and maintains web portal applications using agile methodologies. Responsibilities include designing scalable software, implementing features, optimizing performance, conducting unit testing, reviewing test strategies, diagnosing issues, supporting production, collaborating with business users and engineering teams, and researching emerging technologies. The role is hybrid in New York and may involve coordinating development, testing, release, and production-support activities.

Draft, negotiate, and execute capital markets contract documentation supporting Prime Services and Prime Derivative Services. Manage prime services, futures, OTC clearing, ISDA, repurchase, stock lending, and related financing agreements. Coordinate with legal, credit risk, and business stakeholders; conduct due diligence; provide legal and regulatory guidance; maintain transaction processes, documentation, risk controls, and compliance standards. Advise senior stakeholders and support continuous process improvements.

Manages enterprise data privacy, governance, risk, and compliance programs within a banking environment. Partners with business, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Technology, and Operations stakeholders to implement privacy governance frameworks, conduct privacy risk assessments, strengthen controls, support privacy-by-design, and ensure lawful handling of personal data. Advises senior leaders on regulatory requirements, data quality, records management, and privacy implications of products, technologies, and business changes.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for quantitative investment strategies at the intersection of technology and trading. Build Python solutions, collaborate with product and engineering teams, conduct code reviews, implement testing and secure coding practices, and support cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, instrumentation, and monitoring environments. The role works with market data, equity derivatives, front-office trading users, and global stakeholders while contributing to technical strategy, risk controls, and continuous delivery improvements.

Design and deliver scalable software, data engineering, and AI solutions for Barclays’ Liquid Financing business. Build and optimize cloud-based platforms using Python or Java, AWS, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. Integrate LLM APIs, embeddings, and retrieval patterns into applications while collaborating with product managers, engineers, quants, and strats. Provide technical leadership, guide architecture and strategy, manage risk and controls, advise stakeholders, and mentor less experienced specialists.

Manages operational functions for listed derivatives and OTC clearing clients, including onboarding, mandate acquisition, account go-live, daily margin requirements, client queries, reporting, issue resolution, and process improvement. The role develops operational procedures and controls, collaborates across banking teams, supports risk mitigation, and communicates performance findings to senior stakeholders. It may also lead teams or collaborative assignments and contribute to projects that improve efficiency and client service.

Lead and manage engineering teams building low-latency, enterprise trading and risk platforms (Central Limit Hub, OTC Client Clearing). Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, oversee delivery, enforce standards, collaborate with Front Office, Risk, Operations and product partners, and drive platform modernization and AI adoption to support real-time trade approvals, risk and limit monitoring across asset classes.