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. As a Senior Data Engineer on our Marketing and Communications Platform team, you will drive the next wave of innovation that transforms how Barclays connects with millions of customers across the U.S. Consumer Bank. This role sits at the heart of our digital communication strategy—designing resilient and customer‑centric solutions that power personalized engagement at massive scale.  You will produce end to end data warehouse products including working on tasks such as requirements gathering, architecting the schema objects, building the applications objects and creating a finished data fabric product. Your work will directly help Barclays accelerate modernization, enhance customer experience, and deliver high‑impact capabilities across our channels.

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

• Design, develop, and maintain end‑to‑end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS and Snowflake data models, schemas, virtual warehouses, and data sharing

• Data ingestion, transformation, validation, and orchestration for structured and semi‑structured data and build Python‑based data pipelines, reusable frameworks, automation, and unit tests

• Implement orchestration using Airflow, AWS Glue, Lambda, DBT, or similar tools and ensure data quality, reliability, monitoring, logging, and alerting across pipelines and apply data security, governance, and access controls (RBAC, masking, compliance standards)

• Translate business requirements into technical designs, including source‑to‑target mappings and runbooks and provide production support, issue resolution, root cause evaluation, and minimize downtime

• Support CI/CD, source control, code reviews, and adherence to development standards and contribute to logical and physical data models and system integration testing

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with enterprise-scale message streaming and eventing platforms (such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis), enabling real-time data ingestion, event-driven architectures, and low-latency data pipelines

• Problem-solving and evaluative capability, providing technical guidance in designing, troubleshooting, and evolving multi-faceted data platforms, architectures, and system integrations

• Stakeholder and partner guidance, effectively working across business, product, compliance, and global delivery teams—driving alignment and delivering solutions

• Deep familiarity with the banking and financial services domain, including security, compliance, data protection, and regulatory expectations for Data and cloud-based solutions

• progressive experience delivering enterprise-scale Data Warehouse and engineering solutions

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 collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

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.