Front‑Office AI Data Engineer for Trading Analytics

Barclays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in London seeks an AI Data Engineer to build analytics and AI-ready data platforms on KDB+ powering trading, research and risk use cases across Markets.

You will design and maintain data pipelines and data warehouses/lakes, ensuring data accuracy and security, and collaborate with data scientists to deploy ML models in fast-moving environments. The role focuses on scalable, governance-aware data infrastructure for front-office use cases.

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines and applying AI use cases.
• Familiarity with low-latency trading environments and risk considerations.
• Ability to collaborate with business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines enabling transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehouses and data lakes that manage data volumes and velocity with required security measures.
• Develop processing and analysis algorithms fit for data complexity and volumes.
• Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.

Skills

Data pipelines

AI techniques

Front-office trading

Tools

KDB+

Job description

Barclays in London seeks an AI Data Engineer to build analytics and AI-ready data platforms on KDB+ powering trading, research and risk use cases across Markets.

You will design and maintain data pipelines and data warehouses/lakes, ensuring data accuracy and security, and collaborate with data scientists to deploy ML models in fast-moving environments. The role focuses on scalable, governance-aware data infrastructure for front-office use cases.