Technical Delivery Lead

Technology Delivery Lead | Barclays | Northampton

We’re looking for a Technical Delivery Lead (VP) to join our Enterprise Data Platforms team and play a vital role in our strategic migration of key technologies from on-premise systems to cloud platforms. This is a hands-on role suited to someone with strong technical proficiency in one or more of the following: SAS, Teradata, Hadoop, Ab Initio, or similar technologies.

In this role, you will work as part of a wider project team to facilitate the migration of platform tenants and their associated code and data. This includes supporting technical discovery and analysis to ensure the right cloud technologies are adopted, identifying gaps in our current decision-making frameworks, and working with cross-functional teams to enhance these for future use. You’ll also engage directly with stakeholders to understand their needs, advise on potential changes to ways of working, and help navigate complex or challenging scenarios.

You’ll be expected to lead or support specific technical deliverables as part of the broader programme, contribute to technical design reviews, and participate in discussions around platform strategy. Additionally, you may be called upon to produce technical designs or solutions, collaborating with other teams to resolve challenges. The role requires someone comfortable working independently, managing multiple workstreams, and maintaining a clear view of both the detail and the wider business context.

Essential Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with one or more of the following technologies: SAS, Teradata, Hadoop, Ab Initio
• Proven ability to manage multiple streams of work while understanding upstream and downstream impacts
• Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of delivery
• Able to conduct detailed discovery and analysis of data and processes in a methodical way
• Clear and concise communicator, able to present technical findings to a range of audiences

Desirable Skills

• Broader experience across the technologies listed above
• Awareness of cloud technologies and modern data platforms
• Ability to deliver under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Skilled at breaking down complex problems into simple, actionable task.

This role is based in Northampton.

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.

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.

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.