AVP - Cloud Adoption And Scalability

Barclays Corporate Banking; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Corporate Banking in Gurugram is seeking an AVP for Cloud Adoption & Scalability to build analytical tools, detect patterns, and deliver insights to business users. You will collaborate with architects, designers and engineers to overcome technical challenges and drive agile delivery.

The role requires translating complex technology into business language, leading data platform initiatives, and guiding teams to optimise cloud usage and costs while advancing risk and governance in a

Qualifications

• Communicate complex data findings to business teams.
• Ability to translate data insights into actionable business recommendations.
• Experience in cloud data platforms and governance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and analyze data quality, lineage, controls, and source identification, documenting sources, methodologies and quality to propose improvements.
• Design and build data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytics to large datasets to identify trends, build models, and translate insights into business decisions that drive improvements, leveraging ML/AI where relevant.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations and identify opportunities for operational enhancements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports, and automate regular/ad-hoc reporting for stakeholders.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Data platform management

Tools

SQL

Job description

Job Description:

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.

Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement.
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
• Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.

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/ 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, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.

Join us as a "AVP - Cloud Adoption & Scalability" at Barclays, where you'll build analytical tools to generate insight, recognise patterns and predict behavior, and deliver content direct to users of information products. You will work with technical teams, architects, designers, and administrators to overcome technical challenges and to make it happen. You will need to take ownership of key initiatives to deliver results through an agile workflow.

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

To be successful as an "AVP - Cloud Adoption & Scalability", you should have experience with:

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Manage change to data platforms.
• Perform incident triage for platform issues.
• Perform root cause analysis on platform performance issues.
• Manage cloud platform usage and costs.
• Educate on the data platforms that are used across the businesses.
• Support users in accessing the platforms and adhering to the required governance.
• Advocate best practice for data platform use to maximize business value delivered.
• Identify common themes in user platform use that is sub optimal and implement training and / or support where needed.
• Championing the features that the business need.
• Translating complex technology into consumable business language. Supporting corporate data modernisation program.
• Design, test and build complex forecast models and simulations to identify causal links between customer behavior and business opportunities and performance.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Communication
• Problem solving
• SQL
• Database query optimization (and understanding of if and when optimization techniques can be used on different platforms)
• Willingness to learn new tools and platforms and then help educate others.

This role will be based out of Gurugram.