Vice President - Data Architect

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Pune is seeking a Vice President - Data Architect to design and maintain data models, define data architectures standards, and shape the data strategy across trading applications. You will drive end-to-end data design from onboarding to post-trade processing with a focus on scalability and governance.

The role requires deep expertise in data flow design, logical/physical modelling, and collaboration with engineering teams to deliver architectural outcomes while engaging senior

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering unified data models for complex environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance and standards implementation.
• Proven track record influencing engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of front-to-back data flows in trading and post-trade systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable data models.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries, glossaries, and standards.
• Monitor data usage and identify opportunities for optimization with DBA support.
• Define strategic data architecture and select appropriate tools and platforms.
• Produce logical designs showing processes, data flows, and outputs.
• Identify design issues, own resolutions, and ensure governance alignment.
• Guide senior stakeholders on data architecture strategy and risk.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data modelling

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Trade lifecycle knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Join us at Barclays as a Vice President - Data Architect. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and evolving our data architecture strategy, helping to enhance our trading applications across the organization enabling consistency, scalability, and better decision making across teams.

To succeed as a Vice President - Data Architect, you should have experience in the following:

• Investment Banking, including Financial Markets, Expertise Strong understanding of Investments Banking and Financial Markets, including end-to-end trade lifecycles, market structures, and the flow of data across front‑to‑back processes (from client onboarding, trade capture through post-trade processing).
• Enterprise Data Modelling & Architecture Leadership Proven experience designing and driving adoption of unified data models (e.g., Client, Banking & Trade data representation), including shaping proposals and supporting their implementation across complex environments.
• Advanced Data Architecture Capability

Deep Expertise In Data Architecture Disciplines, Including

• Data flow design
• Logical and physical data modelling
• Translating business and data requirements into scalable, implementable solutions

• Engineering Collaboration & Delivery Enablement Ability to work closely with engineering teams to deliver architectural outcomes across both upstream (trade capture) and downstream (post-trade) systems, ensuring alignment between design and implementation.
• End-to-End Stakeholder Engagement

Strong Stakeholder Management Skills, Including

• Engaging with business and technical teams to understand current-state trade capture and processing
• Partnering across the value chain to drive alignment and adoption of data architecture standards.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role is in Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, implement, and maintain conceptual, Logical and Physical data models that meet business data/process and technology requirements, by using designs and data strategies across a wide selection of platforms.

Accountabilities

• Analysis and documentation of business requirements to translate them into data models aligned with organisational goals.
• Development and maintenance of data dictionaries and glossaries to define data elements and their usage.
• Analysis and monitoring of data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement, in partnership with the Data Base Administrator.
• Strategic architecture definition and product selection.
• Production of logical designs in relevant subject area (technical, data, operational), showing for example: processes, objects, data flows, inputs, stored data and outputs. Identifying common components.
• Implementation of architectures and Identification, ownership and resolution of design related issues.
• Definition and documentation of data architectures standards, principles and strategies.

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.

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.