Data Architect

Embark your transformative journey as Data Architect Vice president based out of Chennai. You will design, develop, and implement solutions to solve 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. The role of the data architect is to define the appropriate data architecture with regards to the data products. The role will involve implementing the data products principles and standards defined & agreed whilst engaging with the BUK CDA and CDO teams. The requirement is to translate business / use case requirements into logical and physical data models which serve as the basis for data engineers to build the data products. This includes working with business teams to capture their requirements, translating these into data models while considering performance implications. Role will include testing the models with data engineers and continuously monitoring and optimizing the performance of these models.​ Team has to engages with the CDA team to design data product solutions covering data architecture, platform design and integration patterns and ensuring that they are in line with policy and technical data standards​. They have to defines appropriate data pipeline and design patterns that orchestrates data from source to target in a variety of architectures​,designs and owns enterprise solution architecture roadmap for data products​,collaborates with the technical product lead on data governance requirements including data ownership of data assets and data quality lineage and standards., Partner with business stakeholders to understand their data needs and their desired functionality for the data product. Translate these requirements into clear data modelling specifications​. They have to designs and implements high-quality data models that optimize data access, storage, and analysis​,creates comprehensive and well-maintained documentation of the data models, including entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, and usage guidelines​.collaborates with data engineers to test and validate the data models​,Obtains sign-off from the DPL, DPA and the Technical Product Lead on the logical and physical data models.​They also have continuously monitor and optimize the performance of the models to ensure efficient data retrieval and processing​ and collaborates with data engineers to translate into physical data models and throughout the development lifecycle​.

To be successful as a Senior Engineering and Design Lead, you should have experience with:

• Cloud platform expertise (AWS)-)AWS Data services - proficiency with AWS data related services such as S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, Lambda,Cloud Architecture Design - Designing cloud-native data architectures, optimizing cost and performance on AWS,Data modelling and architecture.

• Big data technologies -Hadoop ,Data warehousing & Analytics such as -Teradata and Snowflake processes, SQL/scripting, data,Governance and Quality.

• They should ability to engage with business stakeholders, tech teams and data engineers to define requirements, align data strategies and deliver high value solutions. And required proven experience leading cross-functional teams to execute complex data architectures.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Advanced cloud services - familiarity with other services and exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.

• Data orchestration and automation.

• Performance tuning and Optimization. 

• Data Visualization.

 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 for Chennai Location.

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.

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.