AI Developer
Barclays · Posted Oct 7
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays' technology organisation builds and maintains infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, ensuring reliability, scalability and security through software engineering, automation and incident response. The AI Developer role sits within this function, designing and implementing AI solutions that drive innovation and efficiency. The role works closely with AI Architects, Data Engineers and Data Scientists to build scalable AI systems and applications, and is based in the Pune office.
What you will do
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Programming and Software Development: Develop and maintain AI models and algorithms using programming languages such as Python, R, Java, and C++
- Software Engineering: Apply software engineering principles, including distributed computing, time-frequency analysis, UNIX tools, and advanced signal processing techniques
- Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Solve complex problems both autonomously and as part of a team, ensuring that AI solutions are robust and effective
- Code Transformation and Refactoring: Translate legacy code into modern programming languages, refactor existing code to align with cloud-native principles, and optimize performance
- Data Transformation and Schema Conversion: Generate scripts for data transformation, ensuring compatibility between source and target database schemas
- Automated Test Case Generation: Analyze application code, user stories, and requirements to automatically generate comprehensive test cases
- Self-Healing Test Scripts: Identify changes in the application under test and automatically update test scripts
- Automated Data Validation: Automate data cleansing and validation processes, detecting inconsistencies and errors in migrated data
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in Python, R, Java, C++
- Experience in developing and maintaining AI models and algorithms
- Knowledge of distributed computing
- Familiarity with UNIX tools, time-frequency analysis
- Understanding of advanced signal processing techniques
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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