Lead Ab Initio Developer - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Lead Ab Initio Developer - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions within the Core Market Risk Data Platform development team.  As a Lead Ab Initio Developer, you’ll be a key player in the Core Market Risk Data Platform team, shaping how data is ingested, transformed, and analyzed to support the bank’s Market Risk operations. Your expertise will be crucial in delivering innovative solutions, ensuring high performance, and maintaining best practices for complex data flows.

To be successful as a Lead Ab Initio Developer - VP, you should:

• Ample understanding and hands-on experience with Ab Initio, particularly with data ingestion, transformation, and performance optimization.

• Considerable grasp of the Ab Initio ETL framework with a keen eye on improving/maintaining performance/best practices.

• Deep knowledge of data warehousing principles, data architecture, design, and implementation.

• Ample written and verbal communication skills, particularly when interacting with business stakeholders and senior leadership.

• Familiarity with Investment Banking functional knowledge.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Basic understanding of how Market Risk data functions within the banking industry.

• Ability to lead, make decisions on complex issues, and mentor junior developers.

• Ability to think strategically and leverage new technologies to improve efficiency and decision-making.

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 located in Whippany, New Jersey.

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

• 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.