OWS Developer

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.


Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.


Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.


This role is required to meet the development requirements on the Customer Screening platform that uses Oracle EDQ and Oracle OWS products along with Unix and Oracle as database. This role will be initially required to develop solutions to migrate BUs from existing OEDQ platform to OWS platform and on an enduring basis will work on Regulatory Changes.

Apart from managing the development work of in-flight and pipeline CRs this role will also effectively ensure that Intellectual Property is maintained within Barclays.


What will you be doing?

Application Development
Develop applications to technical specifications.
Independently identify repetitive or time consuming processes that can be automated, especially where they benefit multiple business areas.
Consume and produce data from a variety of sources, outputting where necessary to downstream applications, or updating the source.
Design, develop and deliver innovative and tactical solutions to benefit the finance community.
Identify and resolve problems, working closely with the onshore solutions managers
Work on a variety of CR’s and managing the IPR of the bank..

Production and Delivery
Deliver defect free solutions in live environment ensuring service stability.
Own the application support as appropriate when there is an incident or problem record that requires L3 involvement, fully understand problems, communicate and where applicable, implement any resolution.
Analyze and identify common problems and look to provide root cause analysis. Build up a comprehensive knowledge base to reduce future issues. Read more