AVP Technical Lead and SA – Power BI

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Pune, IN, is seeking an AVP Technical Lead and SA - Power BI to drive delivery tooling, reporting, analytics, and governance. You will lead a BI team, implement scalable architectures, and partner with stakeholders to deliver high-value insights in a regulated banking environment.

Ideal candidates have extensive Power BI experience, architecture skills, and strong communication to influence senior stakeholders. Location is Pune with a focus on enterprise BI platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead AVP Technical Lead and SA - Power BI responsibilities: drive delivery tooling, reporting and analytics, performance metrics, governance processes, and planning activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, manage dependencies, and set standards for BI architectures.
• Translate business and technical requirements into BI architectures and roadmaps.

Skills

Power BI

Stakeholder management

Solution architecture

SQL

DAX

REST APIs

Cloud & On-Prem

Leadership

Communication

Tableau knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

DAX

SQL

REST APIs

Azure

AWS

Tableau

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
• Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
• Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
• Mitigate Risks: Identify and elevate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
• Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration (e.g., business stakeholders, product teams, vendors) and build trust with stakeholders
• Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable

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.

AVP Technical Lead and SA - Power BI

Join us as an AVP Technical Lead and SA - Power BI, at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Barclays team. As an AVP, you need to drive operational excellence across the Product organization by managing delivery tooling, reporting and analytics, performance metrics, governance processes, and planning activities. To ensures consistency, transparency, and scalability in how work is planned, measured, funded, and executed while continually identifying opportunities to simplify processes and improve organizational effectiveness.

To be successful as an AVP Technical Lead and SA - Power BI, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience as a Power BI Technical Lead, leading solution design, development, code reviews, performance optimization, releases, and production support.
• Strong expertise in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including semantic models, dashboards, workspaces, deployment pipelines, gateways, refresh management, and administration.
• Advanced skills in DAX, Power Query (M), SQL, dimensional data modelling, performance tuning, and enterprise reporting.
• Experience as a Solution Architect, translating business and technical requirements into BI architectures, integration solutions, roadmaps, and design standards.
• Strong knowledge of API integration, including REST APIs, authentication, authorization, secure connectivity, data ingestion, monitoring, and integration with Power BI and enterprise platforms.
• Good understanding of enterprise infrastructure and networking, including cloud and on-premises environments, gateways, DNS, firewalls, proxies, load balancing, identity management, and certificates.
• Strong knowledge of information security, privacy, risk, and controls, with experience working with cyber-security teams on security design, risk assessments, access controls, vulnerability management, and approvals.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams, set standards, manage dependencies, and contribute to architecture and governance discussions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present options, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with Azure or AWS data and analytics services, cloud-native architecture, capacity management, resilience, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Familiarity with API management platforms, event-driven or microservices-based integration, and tools for API testing and documentation.
• Exposure to network and infrastructure design reviews, hybrid connectivity, disaster recovery, high availability, and operational readiness processes.
• Knowledge of CISO-led security governance, secure-by-design principles, data classification, encryption, secrets management, audit controls, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, source control, automated testing, and controlled deployment of Power BI and supporting platform components.
• Working knowledge of Tableau or other enterprise BI platforms.
• Relevant Microsoft Power BI, Azure, AWS architecture, networking, or cyber-security certifications.

The location of the role is Pune, IN.

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.