Barclays, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Overview

Join Barclays as a Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer, where you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining systems that collect, store, process, and evaluate data—such as data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes—to ensure all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data architectures and pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implement data warehouses and data lakes that manage appropriate data volumes and velocity, while adhering to required security measures.
• Develop processing and analysis algorithms suitable for the data’s complexity and volume.
• Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.

Qualifications and Skills

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
• Data engineering (Airflow/DBT, Spark)
• DevSecOps practices

Additional Skills (Highly Valued)

• Terraform
• Python/Java
• AWS/Azure Data Engineering
• Snowflake/Databricks

This role is based in Glasgow.

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 maintain data architectures and pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implement data warehouses and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Develop processing and analysis algorithms suited for the data complexity and volumes.
• Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.

Leadership and Governance Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate policy breaches.
• Provide leadership or guidance to team members, define roles and responsibilities, and balance short- and long-term goals while ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive, including listening, energising, aligning, and developing others.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, and mentor less experienced specialists.
• Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the team’s work.
• Collaborate with other areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
• Develop solutions based on analytical thinking and extensive research.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve key objectives.

Barclays Values

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Banking and Financial Services