SQL developer

Hybrid / Praha - Pankrác /
Hybrid
Lokation: Prague (Pankrác)
Language: English required, Czech an advantage

Level: Senior
Form of cooperation: Contraktor
Start date: asap
Allocation: Full-Time
Allocation length: Long term

Overall purpose of role:

  • The successful candidate will actively contribute to various projects spanning across critical technical deliveries, regulatory projects and platform enhancements requested by the product owner or business users. With a heavy emphasis on both technical and communication skills, the candidate will be expected to work closely with the Developers, Business Analysts, Architects and Project Managers across all regions and business clusters to deliver robust design and technical solutions in a controlled, transparent and actively risk managed fashion. Ensuring requirement, functional specifications, and unit testing requirements are well understood and participate in all aspects of analysis, design, implementation and deployment of all software related to these applications.

Key Accountabilities

  • Define analysis approach in line with the strategic vision of the project and the preferred methodology of the organisation.
  • Work independently to elicit, validate and document systems requirements for user/feature stories depending on the SDLC in use by the development teams.
  • Participation in the Design process coordinated by the project manager, from Design approval to functional design completion – help to ensure the functionality/benefits envisaged are delivered.
  • Analyse new requirements to find the most appropriate technical solution and contribute to the overall system design
  • Take responsibility and ownership of new feature development
  • Document designs and communicate them with the team
  • Work on all aspects of analysis, design, implementation and deployment of all software, related to the core data applications
  • Design and implement applications and data flows, for accuracy, timeliness, quality and control
  • Contribute to the delivery of complex projects in collaboration with global teams across Barclays, to develop new or enhance existing systems
  • Perform knowledge sharing sessions to raise a common financial knowledge level of the team, or when new functionality is released.
  • Create stored procedures and reports, using T-SQL based on user requirements.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

  • This role interacts with business stakeholders, technology management in Risk, Finance and Treasury areas, portfolio and program management functions, business analysts, and other counterparts. As well as, multifaceted interaction with build managers, feature teams, product owners, business support and run the bank (RTB )to help deliver build the bank (BTB)/RTB releases

  • The successful candidate will need to be able to:
  • Clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences, establishing and maintain strong relationships with colleagues at all levels
  • Negotiate delivery timelines with key stakeholders and effectively manage individual workload
  • Communicate problems and issues to stakeholder to avoid last minute surprises
  • Understands the needs/challenges of stakeholders and can negotiate satisfactory resolution to issues surrounding creation and implementation of technology solutions
  • Ensure client expectations of operational performance and efficiency are met; discuss the same via various communication channels to senior stakeholders within the bank

Decision-making and Problem Solving

  • The Candidate needs to effectively deliver complex projects involving multiple business and technical teams. A formal analysis and evaluation process is needed to arrive at decisions, which have far reaching implications,  whether developing new or enhancing existing systems. A high level of maturity and flexibility is needed to effectively navigate complex environment(s) and deliver optimal solutions.

  • The candidate must demonstrate:
  • Seeking the advice of stakeholders to better create clarity in complex situations, understand problems, evaluate options and make decisions
  • Considering the impact of their actions and decisions on key stakeholders, seeking to deliver a positive outcome for those involved
  • Reprioritising own activities to respond to new information and changing requirements whilst staying focussed on results
  • Understand the requirements and perspectives of stakeholders and integrate into their understanding of complex situations.
  • Demonstrates a broad understanding of how the bank operates and the metrics used to measure performance
  • Analyses problems and evaluates options in a logical and systematic way.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

  • Experience of Data Analysis E.g. Working with big datasets, creating simple/medium SQL queries, confident Excel user
  • Experience of preparing and issuing a range of key business analysis deliverables E.g. Requirements Documentation
  • Has enough knowledge of specialist area to be credible with business users and SMEs. Is still developing SME knowledge in a number of areas
  • Excellent communication skills - including the ability to convey information to non-technical colleagues in a concise and clear way
  • Strong stakeholder management, able to communicate at all levels and build sustainable relationships
  • A strong analytical/problem solving mind-set 

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

  • Some understanding of project methodologies and their application within the organisation's project methodology
  • Organisational skills and ability to multi-task in a highly pressurised support environment
  • Able to work within a high performing team and contribute to overall objectives/best practice
  • Always ready to learn and explore new areas with regard to technology