Delivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer

Barclays; Kentucky; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Barclays is seeking aDelivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer to build cloud-native, data-driven platforms powering analytics, AI, and smarter banking outcomes. You’ll work with AWS technologies to design scalable, secure solutions and modernize Barclays’ data landscape.

The role focuses on data architecture standards, modeling, and platform governance across multiple teams, including guidance on performance optimization and enterprise risk controls.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping enterprise data architecture strategies.
• Strong AWS data platform knowledge and design skills.
• Proficient in Python, PySpark, SQL for analytics engineering.
• Ability to guide governance, security, and data quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines, warehouses, and lakes.
• Design scalable data stores with security and governance.
• Develop analytics algorithms for large data volumes.
• Collaborate with Data Science to deploy ML models.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud computing

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data governance

ML collaboration

Risk & controls

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS S3

AWS Redshift

AWS Athena

Databricks

Jenkins

GitLab

Immuta

DBT

Data Build Tool

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.

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.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Delivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role you’ll play a critical role in building cloud native, data driven platforms that power advanced analytics, AI, and smarter banking outcomes. You’ll work directly with AWS technologies to design and engineer scalable, secure solutions, contributing directly to the modernization of Barclays’ data and technology landscape. This role offers a unique opportunity to deepen your cloud knowledge, work on large‑scale enterprise platforms, and identify your engineering impact in real‑world banking—advancing data architecture, modeling standards, and platform excellence that enable quality analytics, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and informed decision‑making at scale.

To be successful as a Delivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer, you should have:

• Validated experience supporting enterprise data architecture strategies, defining standards and reference architectures, and balancing performance, scalability, and resilience

• Highly skilled in cloud data architecture and distributed computing paradigms, with extensive applied experience leveraging AWS data platforms such as Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Athena, and Databricks.

• Advanced knowledge of data modeling techniques, including dimensional modeling, schema evolution, and design patterns for analytics, reporting, and downstream data consumption

• Demonstrated ability to define, implement, and govern data architecture standards, reference architectures, and engineering frameworks across multiple teams

• Advanced proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL, with the ability to guide teams on performance optimization and scalable design, rather than serving solely as a team member contributor

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience supporting DevOps and CI/CD strategies for data platforms using tools such as Jenkins and GitLab, embedding quality, automation, and reliability into delivery pipelines

• Ample knowledge of data governance, metadata management, data quality, and data mesh concepts, with the ability to influence enterprise, wide adoption

• Experience supporting or enabling machine learning and AI workloads, including model training, inference, or feature pipelines in partnership with Data Science or AI teams

• Considerable understanding of cloud security, IAM, data access controls, and platform governance, with experience implementing fine grained data security using tools such as Immuta

• Strategic understanding of DBT, Data Build Tool and analytics engineering practices for scalable transformation and modelling

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000
Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.