Director - Data Modernization Engineer

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to drive engineering and architectural excellence within their data platform. This pivotal role involves partnering with various teams to modernize data capabilities, ensuring seamless integration of hybrid workloads across cloud and on-premise environments. As a leader, you will mentor engineering teams, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure adherence to technical standards while delivering high-quality solutions. Join a forward-thinking organization that values collaboration and empowers its teams to excel in a rapidly evolving digital landscape, making a significant impact on the future of data-driven decision-making.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Professional Development Opportunities

Annual Bonus

Employee Discounts

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and data modernization strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee project timelines, team allocation, and risk management for successful delivery.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Cloud Architecture

Agile Methodologies

Data Modernization

Mentorship

Risk Management

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Data Analytics Tools

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Job description

• The main purpose of the role is to provide both Engineering and Architectural leadership ensuring EDP provides next generation data capabilities that will support our Digital platform, which will drive the modernization of on-prem data platforms to the cloud. The role will require partnering with our Data Migration, Cloud architecture & development and Business teams to provide solutions that allow hybrid workloads to be run On Premise and Public Cloud effectively with consideration of data gravity, jurisdiction and egress in the solutions.
• The Enterprise Data Platform is a collection of platforms, frameworks and services that provide standard tooling across the bank for moving, ensuring quality, storing, archiving, cataloguing, accessing, manipulating and consuming data as it moves through its data lifecycle. The end result being the data being easily discoverable and accessible for end users to unlock business insights utilizing ML and the more traditional analytics tooling.
• Partner with the EDP architecture and development teams to ensure that the data modernization strategy is executed on the cloud.
• Manage and deliver the overall data modernization strategy and plan by right placing data and analytics in the appropriate tech stack.
• Drive delivery of capabilities in the EDP platform with a focus on a Hybrid Cloud strategy and Event Based solutions.
• Communicating designs to the Architecture council as well as the CTO and CSO organizations.
• Ensure adherence to bank technical standards & SDLC with focus on code quality.
• Ensure team working Agile, encourage interactive delivery and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership to the location team, encouraging learning of new technologies.

Purpose of the role

To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.