Senior Data Engineer

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Data Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. We are looking for someone who is passionate, forward-thinking, and eager to make a difference. Your unique skills and perspectives will be invaluable in helping us achieve our goals. In this role, you will utilize your cloud data experience to migrate legacy data warehouses to modern cloud services by designing modules that automate migration steps and focus on data optimization for analytics and consumption. By joining us, you'll become part of a collaborative and inclusive environment where your contributions are recognized and celebrated. Let's work together to create a brighter future for banking and pave the way for transformative growth.

To be successful as a Senior Data Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Delivering cloud‑native (AWS), production‑grade data pipelines and analytics‑ready data products

• Databricks or equivalent Spark‑based platforms for large‑scale data processing and analytics

• SQL and Python (including PySpark) for multi-faceted analytics, large‑scale transformations, and performance optimization

• Scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using modern cloud data engineering patterns and tooling such as DBT, including orchestration, monitoring, and operational reliability on AWS-based platforms

• Using AI coding agents to accelerate development, improve code quality, and assist with debugging, testing, and design reviews

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Familiar with Capital Market data sets and corporate finance concepts

• Prior data analytics/engineering experience in IB or Asset Management industry

• Exposure to GenAI‑related data curation, including curated datasets, metadata enrichment, embeddings, or feature pipelines supporting AI/ML use cases

• Ability to onboard new data sources and work with structured and semi‑structured data (SQL, JSON, XML)

• Data platform standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices; exposure to graph or non‑relational databases is a plus

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.