Sanctions Developer

Sanctions Developer - Barclays, Pune

Join Barclays in Pune as a Sanctions Developer and play a pivotal role in creating and enhancing applications that support Financial Crime Screening. This hands-on engineering role focuses on building resilient microservices, implementing automation, and optimizing performance. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, Domain SMEs, DevOps, and QA teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and regulatory-compliant screening capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and improve software using various engineering methodologies to provide business, platform, and technology capabilities.
• Deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and performance-optimized.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, contributing to the organization's technology communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
• Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure code design, readability, and reliability.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proficiency in Java and its related frameworks, Spring Boot, Microservices, and back-end technologies.
• Experience designing and building dynamic, data-driven applications using modern frameworks, server integrations, and database connectivity.
• Strong background in back-end development with Java, REST APIs, Microservices, and integration components.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tooling, pipelines, test-first practices, and Agile delivery.
• Experience applying secure coding standards, test-driven approaches, and robust design patterns for reliability and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, server configuration, and data modeling for full-stack applications.
• Effective stakeholder management with global leads and delivery teams.

Highly Valued Skills:

• Experience in the Banking/Finance domain.
• Experience with any flavor of Java.
• Experience with Client-Server based applications.
• Experience developing effective and interactive Front-end UIs using React JS or Angular.
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging systems.
• Experience working with AI/LLM models.

You will be assessed on critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. Successful candidates will embody Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and the Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).