Lead Data Analyst: Banking Analytics & Insights

Barclays; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays seeks a Lead Data Analyst to drive data-driven transformation across the bank. You will translate complex business needs into scalable data solutions, uncover insights through advanced analytics, and deliver outcomes through collaboration with business, technology and product teams.

You will be responsible for leading data initiative design, building pipelines, and applying analytical methods to large datasets to support strategic decisions and risk management.

Qualifications

• Strong Requirements Engineering & Agile Analysis: Eliciting, validating and documenting BRDs/FRDs/user stories, Backlog refinement, feature mapping, supporting testing, Working within Agile frameworks
• Domain Expertise in banking stack: Core Banking, Onboarding, Payments, FX, Liquidity and Cash Management; data as product concepts
• Agile Ceremonies & SAFe Program Events: Writing epics, capabilities, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria

Responsibilities

• Investigate data quality, lineage, controls and source identification with recommendations
• Design and build data pipelines to automate movement and processing
• Apply advanced analytics on large datasets to uncover trends and translate insights to business decisions
• Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations for operational improvement
• Design and create dashboards and reports for stakeholders and automate reporting

Skills

Agile Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Banking Products

Data Modeling

SQL

Machine Learning

Job description

Barclays seeks a Lead Data Analyst to drive data-driven transformation across the bank. You will translate complex business needs into scalable data solutions, uncover insights through advanced analytics, and deliver outcomes through collaboration with business, technology and product teams.

You will be responsible for leading data initiative design, building pipelines, and applying analytical methods to large datasets to support strategic decisions and risk management.