Data Architect

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a IFC Data-Data Architect is responsible for defining and governing the end‑to‑end data architecture for enterprise Data Products, ensuring they are scalable, secure, well‑governed and aligned to business, regulatory and technology standards.

The role focuses on architecting data solutions rather than delivery alone, providing clear architectural direction across data ingestion, storage, transformation and consumption layers, while enabling consistent reuse of data across multiple use cases.

Key Responsibilities

Data Product Architecture

• Define target‑state data architectures for Data Products, covering ingestion, storage, processing and consumption patterns.

• Establish architectural guardrails to ensure Data Products are scalable, reusable, secure and fit for enterprise consumption.

• Ensure architecture supports multiple consumption patterns including analytics, reporting, operational processes and advanced analytics.

Architecture Governance & Design Authority

• Act as a design authority for Data Product architecture decisions within delivery teams.

• Review and approve data architecture designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

• Balance tactical delivery needs with long‑term strategic architecture objectives.

Data Modelling & Integration Oversight

• Provide architectural oversight for conceptual, logical and physical data models produced by data modelling teams.

• Guide integration patterns, data flows, contracts and interfaces between systems.

• Ensure appropriate handling of data lineage, metadata, auditability and history management across products.

Data Governance, Risk & Control

• Ensure Data Product architectures comply with data governance, data quality, privacy, security and records management requirements.

• Embed architectural controls that support regulatory, audit and risk expectations.

• Partner with governance and control teams to proactively identify and mitigate data risks.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams and platform architects to ensure architecture decisions are well understood and implementable.

• Provide clear architectural direction and rationale to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Support delivery teams in resolving architectural issues and design trade‑offs.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in enterprise data architecture, preferably within large, complex organizations.

• Proven experience designing data architectures for Data Products, data platforms or analytics ecosystems.

• Solid understanding of data ingestion patterns, storage technologies, data processing and consumption architectures.

• Strong grounding in data modelling concepts, even if not hands‑on for day‑to‑day modelling.

• Experience working in regulated environments with strong control, audit and compliance expectations.

• Excellent stakeholder management and decision‑making skills.

• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with database management systems (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 etc).

• Understands data design specifications and maintain data dictionaries.

• Experience in conducting data profiling and analysis to identify data quality issues and propose solutions.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Exposure to modern data architectures, including cloud and hybrid data platforms.

• Experience supporting data modernization or legacy platform migration programs.

• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management and data quality frameworks.

• Experience working closely with data engineers, analysts and platform teams.

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant to succeed 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 based out of Pune.