Data Business Partner

Barclays UK; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Senior Data Business Analyst, where you'll enhance project delivery and tackle complex business challenges. This role offers a hybrid working environment, allowing flexibility in your working pattern while focusing on data quality and control standards across multiple business areas.

Qualifications

• Experience in business and data analysis within complex architectures.
• Understanding of data and process operating models.

Responsibilities

• Investigating data to understand its availability and suitability.
• Documenting business processes and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Managing designated Risk, Finance, and Treasury Data Domains.

Skills

Business Analysis

Data Analysis

Process Re-engineering

Risk Management

Project Management

Job description

As a Barclays Senior Data Business Analyst, you will act within a team of data partners and analysts and be responsible for delivering an evolving capability within the Chief Data Office (CDO) focused on meeting data quality and control standards across multiple business areas. This role offers an opportunity to enhance project delivery experience and investigate detailed business challenges across data sets, operational processes, controls, and applications.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers with endless opportunities—helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating essential financial and digital solutions.

We are currently implementing a hybrid working environment, allowing colleagues to work part of the time at home and part in the office. The specific working pattern can vary between 20% to 60% in-office time, depending on the role and personal circumstances, with flexibility to discuss options with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

1. Investigating data to understand its availability, meaning, and suitability for use within the function.
2. Documenting relevant business processes and identifying opportunities to streamline activities, reduce duplication, or redesign processes.
3. Defining requirements and specifications for data remediation efforts to meet regulatory commitments, risk controls, and business objectives.
4. Delivering impact assessments and business cases to senior stakeholders to secure support for proposed recommendations.
5. Managing designated Risk, Finance, and Treasury Data Domains, proactively engaging to improve data quality and controls.
6. Overseeing governance of mandatory metadata to ensure accuracy and completeness within the Barclay Data Catalogue, in line with Data Standards.
7. Owning Data Council and CDO Forum submissions, managing stakeholders and supporting data domain working groups.
8. Planning medium- and long-term strategies to support data maturity transformation aligned with business strategy.

What we’re looking for:

1. Experience in business and data analysis within complex end-to-end architectures.
2. Understanding of data and process operating models, process re-engineering, and ownership.
3. Ability to work independently and proactively with limited supervision.
4. Experience in data management, risk, and controls within a financial services organization at a senior level.

Skills that will help you in the role:

1. Knowledge of Risk, Finance, or Treasury business domains.
2. Experience with regulatory environments such as Basel, BCBS 239.
3. Process improvement or Lean Six Sigma certification.
4. Project management qualifications (e.g., PRINCE2, PMI).

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art campus in Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration, supporting a community of 5,000 colleagues. It offers opportunities for personal growth and community engagement, located conveniently near Central Station.

About the company

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