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What they do

Barclays is a diversified bank. It has UK consumer, corporate, and wealth and private banking businesses, an investment bank, and a US consumer bank. It says that its vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance.

What they value

• Respect: include people, trust those you work with, and value everyone's work.
• Integrity: act with honesty, courage, openness, and fairness.
• Service: act with empathy and humility, and put the people you serve first.
• Excellence: set high standards and use your skills to make a positive difference.
• Stewardship: leave things better than you found them.
• The Barclays Mindset, its guide to how people behave: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Where they hire

Each of the 803 Postings names an office. India has the most, with 209 in Pune. Gurugram, Mumbai, Chennai, and Noida follow. The UK has London (Canary Wharf), Glasgow, Knutsford, and Northampton. The US has New York, Whippany, and Wilmington. Others are in Singapore, Frankfurt, Prague, Hong Kong, and Paris. A London internship will sponsor a UK skilled worker visa.

Teams and roles

Technology is the largest group. Early careers and banking roles follow.

• Technology: software engineers, developers for Java, React, Python, and ServiceNow, engineers who build and run release pipelines or automate tests, data engineers, solution architects, who design whole systems, and engineering managers. Most are in Pune.
• Early careers: 2027 internships in summer and at other times of year, graduate programs, and apprenticeships in banking, risk, finance, HR, and quantitative analytics.
• Risk and control: operational risk, technology risk, cyber risk, and compliance roles.
• Banking: private bankers, wealth managers, corporate bankers, and customer service advisors.
• Markets and analytics: quants, who build mathematical models, strategists, and data and business analysts.
• Also legal, finance, and operations.

What they look for

The Postings ask you to show the Barclays Values and Mindset. Postings say that you can be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology. The DevOps engineer in Pune, who builds and runs release pipelines, needs Java and tools such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, GitLab, and Kafka. The lead data analyst needs analysis in Agile teams, which work in short cycles, and knowledge of banking products. The US quant graduate program asks for a postgraduate degree in a technical subject and a GPA of 3.4 or above. Private banking roles ask for client relationships and knowledge of the rules on checking who clients are and stopping money laundering. Some roles need a second language, such as Turkish.