Azure Data Engineering Director

Additional JD below:

Overall purpose of role

The main purpose of the role is to provide both Engineering and Architectural leadership in the newly formed Glasgow Enterprise Data Platform Team.  The Enterprise Data Platform is a collection of platforms, frameworks and services that provide standard tooling across the bank for moving, ensuring quality, storing, archiving, cataloguing, accessing, manipulating and consuming data as it moves through its data lifecycle.  The end result being the data being easily discoverable and accessible for end users to unlock business insights utilizing ML and the more traditional analytics tooling.

Key Accountabilities

• Architect the platform considering the financial aspects of the design along with the other NFR’s.
• Communicating designs to the Architecture council as well as the CTO and CSO organizations.
• Drive delivery of capabilities in the EDP platform with a focus on a Hybrid Cloud strategy.

• Provide leadership to the local engineering team in Glasgow.
• Ensure adherence to bank technical standards & SDLC with focus on code quality.
• Ensure team working Agile,  encourage interactive delivery and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership to the location team,  encouraging learning of new technologies.
• Work with the Product Owners to assist with planning and overall strategy of the platform.

Person Specification

Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience.  Note: experience requirements must not be in the form of years (minimum or otherwise).

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Strong Architecture and Design experience in a Cloud environment.
• Understanding of Agile Software development methodologies and governance
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Able to work effectively with a variety of key stakeholder groups.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Architecture or Engineering certification.
• Microsoft Azure
• Experience in AWS Data Analytics.
• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Experience with containerization.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure. 

Accountabilities

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.