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.
Join us as a Data Engineer-VP at Barclays where you will Lead the design, development, and modernization of enterprise data platforms, with a strong focus on Ab Initio, Hadoop ecosystem, and AWS cloud technologies. Responsible for building scalable data solutions, driving migration of on-premise data processing workloads to AWS, defining target-state architecture and migration roadmaps, and ensuring secure, reliable, and high-quality data delivery. Collaborate with business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver strategic data transformation initiatives while promoting engineering best practices, automation, and cloud adoption.
To be successful as a Data Engineer – VP, you should have experience with:
Strong Ab Initio development expertise (GDE, EME, Conduct>It, Continuous Flows, Metadata Hub)
Hadoop ecosystem technologies (Hive, Spark, HDFS, Impala, Oozie, Sqoop, Kafka)
AWS Cloud Data Services (Glue, EMR, Athena, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Iceberg)
DevOps & CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployments)
Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership (leading data transformation initiatives, regulatory data delivery, mentoring teams, and collaborating with business, architecture and engineering stakeholders)
Some other highly valued skills may include
Python, SQL and Spark for large-scale data engineering and automation
Data Architecture ,Data Governance, Data Quality, and Metadata Management
Data Governance & Data Quality Management (Metadata, Data Lineage, Data Controls, Data Stewardship, Data Mesh)
AI & Advanced Analytics (Machine Learning, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering)
Financial Services & Risk Domain Knowledge (Credit Risk, Basel, IFRS9, Regulatory Reporting, Data Controls)
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.
The role is based out of Pune
