Job Description

Purpose of the role

To  lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

• Senior data leader with experience building and scaling enterprise data functions. Proven track record in building and implementing scalable model infrastructure.
• Platform owner accountable for building and evolving the Investment Banking and Wholesale Lending Data lake on Barclays Enterprise Data Platform (EDP).
• Accountability to deliver Accurate, Reliable, High Quality data from the Data Lake within SLA/OLA for various Model/ Non Models (MI, Reports, Dashboards) use cases for business stakeholder areas.
• Designing and building the strategic Banking and Wholesale Lending Data Products on Barclays EDP.
• Data Platform Owner accountable for various SLAs/OLAs for delivering and receiving data from various stakeholder areas within the Barclays ecosystem; accountable to meet various CEO/CFO/CRO MI/reports/metrics in a timely manner.
• Accountable to ensure and maintain a highly resilient Data Platform for Investment Banking and Lending.
• Accountable for managing and tracking financial budgets for the area, bottom up resource and cost planning, forecasting costs accurately, tracking business benefits and ensuring return on investment
• Simplify, paraphrase, translate complex technical concepts for C-suite leaders with clear examples to articulate the business value delivered.
• Senior stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead large teams – 50+ to 150+ colleagues
• Accountability for establishing Data Governance, Data Entitlements and Data Policies for the platforms.

Skills: 

• AWS Certified Solution Architect and/or Data Engineer
• Adopts AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Git Lab Duo
• Proven track record of delivering Data Products on Enterprise Data Platforms on Public and Private Cloud infrastructure
• Ability to both, directly build and technically direct the development of E2E Data, Analytics and  AI products. The ability to code production quality solutions using both, Java and Python. Ability to build complex models using Porch or TensorFlow. Ability to manage performant SQL databases and ability to finetune databases.
• Mastery of ML/Data Science skills – proven track record in Data Science/ML with expertise in Python, SQL and Deep Learning libraries (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch)
• Ability to build and deploy LLM and SLM driven workflows and NLP solutions that are scalable, compliant and production ready.
• Deep familiarity with information security solutions in the context of Enterprise AI
• Expertise in DataBricks, SnowFlake, Airflow, DBT will be preferred
• Deep expertise in data privacy, access management and policy governance
• Hands on skills in data catalog tools with exposure to continuously maintaining the health of data quality (accuracy/ completeness) controls and lineage

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available. Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. This position is eligible for an incentive award.