Vice President - Senior Data Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Vice President
- Senior Data Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will contribute to building a greenfield data and intelligence platform for Equities, playing a key role in defining the architecture, selecting tooling, and setting the strategic direction of a modern data ecosystem. You will partner with global engineering and business teams to deliver scalable analytics, enable real-time insights, and support data-driven decision-making across the trading organization.

To be successful as a Vice President
- Senior Data Engineer, you should have:

• Considerable Python experience for data engineering and service development, leveraging frameworks and libraries such as FastAPI, PySpark, Pydantic, and asyncio
• Practical expertise with AWS cloud services, including EC2, ECS/Fargate, EMR, Glue, and S3
• Proficiency in data orchestration and workflow management tools like Airflow or Dagster
• Familiarity with modern data lake architectures and storage formats, including Iceberg, Parquet, and data catalog solutions
• Experience optimizing production systems through caching strategies using technologies such as Redis, Grid Gain, or Apache Ignite

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with Databricks or Snowflake
• Observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana or Splunk
• Streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Experience in Java and Java Script

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 is located in our Whippany, New Jersey and New York, NY office.

Salary for Whippany, NJ:

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of 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.

Salary for New York, NY:

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

• 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations,…