Senior Risk Data Modeller

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in London is seeking a Senior Risk Data Modeller to lead the design and delivery of risk data solutions that are scalable, accurate, and secure. You will drive data architecture for risk, reporting, and regulatory calculations within a fast-paced financial services environment.

The role requires hands-on data modelling with Python, strong collaboration with data scientists, and a track record of delivering regulatory projects such as Stress Testing and FRTB in Agile settings.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience within Financial Services, with a background in Risk.
• Proven delivery of regulatory initiatives, including Stress Testing and FRTB.
• Hands-on experience modelling complex upstream and calculated risk data.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of risk data solutions.
• Ensure high-quality, scalable, and controlled data to support regulatory calculations and reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align risk data strategies with business objectives.

Skills

Risk Management

Data Modelling

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Python

Git

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.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Values and Mindset

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.

Senior Risk Data Modeller at Barclays

Join us as a Senior Risk Data Modeller at Barclays, where you will lead the design and delivery of risk data solutions, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and controlled data to support regulatory calculations, reporting, and strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

To be successful as a Senior Risk Data Modeller, you should have: Extensive experience within Financial Services, with a background in Risk. Proven delivery of regulatory initiatives, including Stress Testing and FRTB. Hands-on experience modelling complex upstream and calculated risk data.

Highly Valued Skills

Experience working within Agile delivery environments. Knowledge of either FX, Interest Rates, Credit, or Equities. Experience collaborating with technology teams using tools such as Python and Git.

Assessment Criteria

You will be assessed on key skills including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technology leadership.

Location

This role will be based in London.

Work Experience

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.