Chief of Data Analytics Data Architect

Join us at Barclays as a Chief of Data Analytics Data Architect. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and evolving our data architecture strategy, helping to enhance our trading applications across the organisation enabling consistency, scalability, and better decision making across teams.

To succeed as a Data Architect, you should have experience in the following:

• Financial markets experience, with an advanced understanding of trade life cycles, market structures, and data flows across front-to-back processes.
• Developing proposals for a unified trade data model/representation and supporting its implementation.
• Expertise in data architecture including data flow design, logical and physical data modelling and translating data requirements into solutions that you will work closely with engineering teams to implement.
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams to deliver changes across upstream systems (trade capture) and downstream systems (post-trade processing).
• Stakeholder engagement, including understanding how trades are currently captured and processed, and partnering with business and technical teams across the value chain.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Previous experience working in front office environments.

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 is in London.

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.

• 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.

• 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, counselling employees on performance and ...
• 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• 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…