VP - Data Designer

Join us as a Vice President- Data Designer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be successful as a Vice President- Data Designer, you should have experience with:

• Having designed and develop detail data models, schemas, and database designs
• Optimize data structures for performance and scalability in alignment with business objectives
• Experience in conducting data profiling and analysis to identify data quality issues and propose solutions
• Understands data design specifications and maintain data dictionaries.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with database management systems (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL , Kafka , AWS etc).
• Conceptual understanding of Data warehousing, Elastic platforms and Cloud must
• Ability to interpret data and present it clearly to diverse audiences

Additional relevant skills given below are highly valued:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Data Science, or related field.
• Proven experience in data modeling, database design, and data governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and tools.
• Proficient in agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello).
• Experience in business analysis or product ownership, preferably in a data analytics context.
• Strong knowledge of data analytics tools and methodologies.
• Having basic understanding of financial crime domain
• Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with data models, data base designs and familiarity with database management systems as well as job-specific skillsets.

This role will be based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To lead the development and execution of the bank's Data & Analytics strategy, aligned with the bank's overall business goals and risk appetite, ensuring data is used effectively to drive business growth, optimise operations, and mitigate risks.  

Accountabilities

• Enablement of Business or Function Unit Strategy through fostering and embedding a comprehensive understanding of how data can be used, bringing thought leadership on best practices and new capabilities to deliver Business outcomes.   .
• Adherence to data policies standards and controls and inform this over time, driving Data Quality in support of use cases.
• Partnership with the Business or Function leadership to lead the definition and prioritisation of data use cases, business data products and their implementation and realisation of benefit.
• Prioritisation of activity required for Data and Analytics and challenge the overall end to end design and architecture.

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.