AI Developer

About the Role

Hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this AI Developer role. Join Barclays as an AI Developer, where you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing AI solutions that drive innovation and efficiency within the organization. You will work closely with AI Architects, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to build scalable AI systems and applications. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it. Purpose of the role: To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participation in code reviews, and promotion of a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Staying informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contributing to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Skills and Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have the following skills:

• 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.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Proficiency in Python, R, Java, C++
• Experience developing and maintaining AI models and algorithms
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Assistant Vice President Expectations (Leadership Track)

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic (L), Energise and inspire (E), Align across the enterprise (A), Develop others (D).

Assistant Vice President Expectations (Individual Contributor Track)

• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
• Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other business-aligned support areas to stay up-to-date with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, which may include sensitive or difficult-to-communicate content.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Key skills/competency

• AI Developer
• Python
• R
• Java
• C++
• Machine Learning
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Software Engineering
• Data Transformation