Data Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.

Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
• Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.

Vice President 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, 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. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 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.

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.

Join us as a Data Lead, where you'll play a key role in shaping how instrument, security and pricing data is sourced, governed and consumed across PBWM Investments. Sitting within the Instrument Domain of the PBWM Investments tribe, you'll lead a team of Data Analysts and help drive the delivery of Instrument Hub as the strategic data platform, supporting the migration from and decommissioning of the legacy PRIDE system.

To be successful as a Data Lead, you should have the following essential skills:

• Financial Markets & Investment Product Expertise: Ample knowledge of securities and investment products across asset classes, particularly equities, fixed income, funds, OTC derivatives and structured products, with an understanding of instrument attributes, relationships and lifecycle events.
• Instrument Data Analysis & Modelling: Deep experience in instrument/reference data, data modelling and data quality, including identifiers, classifications, networks, lineage, authoritative sources, source-to-target mapping and defining measurable quality standards.
• Data Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to lead and develop Data Analysts, while working effectively across Product, Architecture, Engineering, Front Office, Operations and Risk to turn multi-faceted business and data problems into implementable solutions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Derivatives Data & Modelling Experience: Experience modelling OTC derivatives and multi-faceted/structured products, including the additional challenges of product relationships and lifecycle events.
• Investment Platform & Data Integration Experience: Experience delivering instrument data into investment or advisory platforms, ideally involving market/reference-data vendors, APIs and downstream consumers.
• Strategic Data Transformation & Migration: Experience establishing an authoritative data source, consolidating fragmented data capabilities, and supporting large-scale data migration or legacy-platform decommissioning.

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 based in our Glasgow office.