Data Lead

Embark on a transformative journey as a Data Lead. At Barclays, every day is an opportunity to innovate. As a Data Lead you will enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM.

To be a successful Data Lead, you should have experience with (Mandatory):

• Leadership & Team Management. Experience in managing cross-functional teams and navigating internal mobility processes. Ability to consolidate under a single lead and assess incumbents for suitability. Clear criteria for people leadership, including stakeholder engagement and delivery focus. Lead by example in exploring new technologies and ideas.

• Good knowledge and understanding of data related regulatory requirements across APAC. (e.g.  PDPA, HKMA guidelines, APPI, Privacy Act, PIPL, and financial reporting frameworks like BCBS 239) Experience in implementing data management practices, including metadata, lineage and data quality. (covering business glossaries, automated/manual lineage tracking, DQ frameworks with profiling, monitoring and remediation workflows)

• Strong business analysis skills with ability to translate complex business requirements into data solutions. (requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis, user story development, and solution validation with measurable outcomes)

• Data analysis and analytics using modern technologies and cloud. (AWS, visualization tools, and AI/ML applications) Demonstrable experience in investment banking data taxonomies - specifically client and party data. (including hierarchies, relationships, KYC/AML structures, beneficial ownership tracking, and regulatory reporting requirements)

• Data architecture and logical data modelling strategy, design and implementation. (enterprise architecture principles, integration patterns, master data management, and security architecture aligned with regional regulations)

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued (Desired):

• Strategic Resource Management: Excel at optimizing global talent allocation, managing time zone differences for continuous productivity, and balancing cost efficiencies with performance requirements while developing offshore team capabilities to support high-value investment banking activities.

• Advanced Data Profiling: SQL: Including DDL, DML, performance tuning, PL/SQL, T-SQL and / or Python or Shell scripting: Used for data validation and automation.

• Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE, PMI).  

You may be assessed on 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 Pune.

Purpose of the role

To enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM.  

Accountabilities

• Partnership with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks as appropriate to the needs of the business unit.
• Provision of guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval and disposal to business units.
• Monitoring local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Identification of opportunities for data improvement and optimisation.
• Partnership with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision making and change programs.

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.