Senior Data LeadVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Experience in leading enterprise data architecture decisions, defining standards and reference architectures, and balancing performance, resilience.
• Deep expertise in cloud data architecture and distributed computing paradigms, with extensive hands‑on background in AWS data platforms, including Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Athena, and Databricks.
• Advanced knowledge of data modelling techniques, including dimensional modelling, schema evolution, and design patterns for analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Demonstrated ability to define and govern data architecture standards, reference architectures, and engineering frameworks across multiple teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL, with the ability to guide teams on performance optimization and scalable design rather than individual contribution alone.
• Experience leading DevOps and CI/CD strategies for data platforms using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab, embedding quality, automation, and reliability into delivery pipelines.
• Considerable knowledge of reporting and analytics toolset (Power BI, Tableau)
• Experience supporting or enabling machine learning and AI workloads (including model training, inference, or feature pipelines) in partnership with Data Science or AI teams.
• Good understanding of cloud security, IAM, data access controls, and platform governance, with experience implementing fine‑grained data security using tools such as Immuta.
• Strategic understanding of DBT (Data Build Tool) and analytics engineering practices for scalable transformation and modelling.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.
• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

About the position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Data Lead at Barclays, where you’ll play a critical role in building cloud‑native, data‑driven platforms that power advanced analytics, AI, and smarter banking outcomes. You’ll work hands‑on with AWS technologies to design and engineer scalable, secure solutions, contributing directly to the modernization of Barclays’ data and technology landscape. This role offers a unique opportunity to deepen your cloud expertise, work on large‑scale enterprise platforms, and see your engineering impact reflected in real‑world banking—supporting data architecture strategy, data modelling standards, platform evolution, and engineering excellence that enable high‑quality analytics, responsible AI adoption, regulatory compliance, and informed decision‑making at scale.

Benefits

• Barclays employees are also eligible for a suite of competitive country-specific benefits.
• This position is eligible for an incentive award.
• Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
• Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
• They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.