Data Modeller/Architect

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Modeller/Architect at Barclays to lead the design and evolution of Barclays' enterprise data models. This is a critical leadership role requiring deep banking and/or investment banking experience to shape data strategy, ensure compliance and deliver high-value insights through robust data architecture.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be located at our Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

Purpose of the role To design, implement, and maintain conceptual, Logical and Physical data models that meet business data/process and technology requirements, by using designs and data strategies across a wide selection of platforms.

Accountabilities

• Analysis and documentation of business requirements to translate them into data models aligned with organisational goals.
• Development and maintenance of data dictionaries and glossaries to define data elements and their usage.
• Analysis and monitoring of data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement, in partnership with the Data Base Administrator.
• Strategic architecture definition and product selection.
• Production of logical designs in relevant subject area (technical, data, operational), showing for example: processes, objects, data flows, inputs, stored data and outputs. Identifying common components.
• Implementation of architectures and Identification, ownership and resolution of design related issues.
• Definition and documentation of data architectures standards, principles and strategies.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include leading design and evolution of enterprise data models, shaping data strategy, ensuring compliance, and delivering high-value insights.

Vice President / Leadership Expectations

• 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to pay decisions/changes. May lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short and long-term goals with budgets and schedules.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
• If individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert guiding technical direction on multi-year assignments and mentoring less experienced specialists.
• 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 understanding of the organisation to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, compare and select complex alternatives, and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.

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.

Location

Glasgow office.