Overview
Join Barclays in Glasgow, Scotland as Enterprise Data Architect covering Investment Banking, Consumer Banking and Enterprise Data Platforms. You will drive the architecture roadmaps and major data transformation initiatives such as the enterprise party master (customer/client), data products and legal entity enhancement framework for regulators. You will deliver patterns-as-code for large groups of developers to fast track data product delivery. You will uplift data practices, shape data management capability improvements, define the platform roadmap, and interact with engineers, business unit stakeholders and platform engineering. You will have a role of influence by collaborating across multiple areas of the business and unifying opinions and technology solutions.
Location: Glasgow office. Employment type: Full-time. Seniority level: Mid-Senior level.
Responsibilities
- Develop the bank's data architecture strategy, translating bank-wide goals into a target data architecture and transition plan.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including data operations, engineers and analysts to promote standardized, safe, and value-driven data usage.
- Develop and maintain data architecture governance, standards and protection policies for data models, authoritative data stores, and data capabilities to support data quality and security.
- Ensure project alignment to the target data architecture by providing guidance, data solutions and monitoring progress.
- Define shared reusable data capabilities, assets, tools and technologies to connect disparate data sources, optimise storage, and provide seamless data access.
- Oversee an overarching data model directing how data is structured within physical resources (databases, interfaces, reports).
- Monitor regulatory standards and industry developments for potential impact on operations, controls and application portfolio.
- Identify and select best-in-class data technologies and assess ongoing compliance with SLAs and quality standards.
Qualifications
- Strong data platform and solution architecture experience covering enterprise-grade cloud data platforms (AWS and/or Azure), data management solutions (catalogue, lineage, data quality) and data security solutions (access control, data protection).
- Experience delivering high-value Data Products.
- Strong investment and consumer banking data experience, including master data management (customers, products, accounts).
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Cloud data engineering skills on AWS/Azure
- Data architecture patterns and delivering patterns-as-code for reuse
- GenAI solutions experience
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.
Purpose of the role
To define, direct and govern the bank’s target data architecture (including shared data environment, data model and standards) in support of business strategy, ensuring data is accurate, secure and accessible to meet stakeholder needs.
Accountabilities
- Develop the bank’s data architecture strategy and translate goals into the target architecture and transition plan.
- Collaborate with data operations, engineers and analysts to promote standardized, safe and value-driven data usage.
- Maintain data architecture governance, standards and protection policies to support data quality and security.
- Align projects to the target data architecture with guidance and progress monitoring.
- Define reusable data capabilities and tools to connect data sources and enable access.
- Custodianship of the overarching data model for logical and physical data structure.
- Monitor regulatory standards and industry developments for potential impact on operations, controls and portfolio.
- Select best-in-class data technologies and ensure compliance with SLAs and quality standards.
Vice President Expectations
- Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes; plan resources, budgets, and policies; promote continuous improvement.
- Lead or guide teams or specialists, aligning priorities with corporate goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet requirements.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviours to enable colleagues to thrive, including listening, inspiring, aligning and developing others.
- As an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction and coaching less experienced staff.
- Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignments.
- Manage and mitigate risk, strengthen controls, and ensure regulatory and organizational compliance.
- Collaborate with other areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
- Develop innovative solutions through sophisticated analysis and problem-solving.
- Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve business objectives.
All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and embody the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
- Banking and Financial Services
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