Senior Data Analyst

Step into the role of Senior Data Analyst at Barclays within the Investment Bank Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO) team at Barclays, where you’ll drive innovation and creativity by developing forward-thinking, data-driven solutions. Your problem-solving mindset, determination, and collaborative spirit will be key to challenging the status quo and introducing new ideas. In this role, you’ll be at the centre of our data strategy, transforming raw information into actionable insights that power smarter decisions and operational excellence. You will partner with Front Office and work cross functionally with Legal and Operations teams to design innovative solutions, streamline data pipelines, optimise data structures, strengthen governance, and ensure regulatory compliance, making a meaningful impact on how Barclays delivers value.

To be successful as a Senior Data Analyst, you should have:

• Regulatory & Investment Banking Data Expertise: Proven experience delivering data analysis for major front office regulatory programmes, with strong knowledge of investment banking products, risk frameworks, and financial markets data. Skilled in requirements traceability, data sourcing, data lineage, and front office control design.
• Data Architecture & Governance: Extensive experience in data modelling and architecture with strong expertise in data governance principles, data quality, and front office control frameworks. Skilled in designing controls to ensure accurate and reliable data, and in translating regulatory requirements into scalable data designs and source to target mappings using conceptual, logical, and physical modelling.
• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in SQL and hands on Python for complex data joins, transformations, and reconciliations across large datasets. Skilled in creating interactive dashboards and visualisations using Power BI and Tableau.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Storytelling: Skilled in presenting insights effectively to senior stakeholders within Front Office business through visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Cloud Data Platform Experience: Hands on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, or Databricks) and big data ecosystems.
• Metadata & Lineage Tooling: Proficiency in tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Informatica EDC for managing data dictionaries, lineage, and governance artefacts to support regulatory traceability.
• Agile Delivery Practices: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (JIRA, Confluence) for efficient, audit ready delivery.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Ability to work across functions and influence decision making at senior levels.

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 based in London with a hybrid working model of working a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

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.