Technical Business Analyst

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Technical Business Analyst, where you will enhance the reliability of data through quality processes and extract actionable insights. This role involves collaboration across departments to deliver data-driven solutions and optimize resources effectively.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data ecosystems and data-driven solutions.
• Proven experience in managing change and engaging stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear documentation.

Responsibilities

• Implement data quality procedures ensuring reliability and trustworthiness of data.
• Analyze data quality issues and execute cleansing tasks.
• Design and build data pipelines to automate data processing.

Skills

Data architecture

Change management

Business analysis

Investment banking understanding

Self-starter

Stakeholder management

Job description

Join us as a Technical Business Analyst at Barclays, where you will help shape the future of banking by implementing data quality processes and procedures, ensuring that data is reliable and trustworthy. You will then extract actionable insights from it to help the organization improve its operations and optimize resources.

To be successful as a Technical Business Analyst, you should have:

• Knowledge of data architecture, data infrastructure, or data products – Ability to understand and work within data ecosystems, supporting the development, management, or optimization of data-driven solutions.

• Experience in change management – Involvement in delivering or supporting organizational change, with a focus on stakeholder engagement, implementation planning, and adoption.

• Business analysis experience – Skilled in gathering requirements, identifying process improvements, and translating business needs into clear documentation to support solution design and delivery.

• Understanding or knowledge of investment banking – Familiarity with the products, processes, or regulatory landscape of investment banking, enabling more informed contributions to relevant projects.

• Self-starter – Demonstrates independence, with the ability to take ownership of tasks, drive progress, and deliver outcomes without close supervision.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Stakeholder management – Ability to engage, influence, and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders across business and technical teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery.

• Change Management experience

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To implement data quality processes and procedures, ensuring data is reliable and trustworthy, then extract actionable insights to help the organization improve its operations and optimize resources.

Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.
• Execution of data cleansing and transformation tasks to prepare data for analysis.
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Development and application of advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning and AI, to solve complex business problems.
• Documentation of data quality findings and recommendations for improvement.

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 and 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, with performance appraisals and reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a high standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured tasks, and identify new directions or methodologies to meet outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures supporting governance and control.
• Manage risk and strengthen controls related to your work.
• Perform work related to other areas, understanding how they coordinate to achieve organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other work areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship—our moral compass—and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.