Data Engineer

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Glasgow is hiring a Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes, ensuring data is accurate, accessible and secure across the organisation. You will collaborate with data scientists to deploy analytics models and work with cloud services and CI/CD tooling to deliver robust data platforms that support decision making at scale.

The role emphasizes security, governance and scalable architectures, with opportunities to influence data strategy and

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of AWS networking (VPC, Route 53), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3), and IAM security controls.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation) to provision immutable environments.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

AWS Core Services

IaC

CI/CD automation

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CodePipeline

Job description

Job Description 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

LEAD Behaviours

• 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.

Join Barclays as a Data Engineer and play a key role in shaping the future of data-driven decision-making. In this exciting opportunity, you will build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data across the organisation. From developing robust data pipelines and scalable data warehouses to supporting modern data lakes, you will ensure that data is accurate, accessible, and secure, enabling colleagues and stakeholders to unlock valuable insights and drive business success.

Required Skills

• AWS Core Services: Deep knowledge of networking (VPC, Route 53), compute (EC2, Lambda), storage (S3), and IAM security controls.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to provision immutable environments.
• CI/CD Automation: Building pipelines via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or native AWS CodePipeline.

This role will be based in Glasgow

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.