Delivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive award

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Barclays, located in Whippany, NJ, seeks a Delivery Lead/Senior Data Engineer to build cloud-native, data-driven platforms powering analytics and AI. You will design scalable, secure AWS-based solutions (Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Athena, Databricks) and lead architecture standards across multiple teams.

You will shape data architecture, modeling, governance, and platform reliability while collaborating with Data Science to deploy models and ensure compliant, high-performance data ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise data architecture strategies and reference architectures.
• Extensive AWS data platform experience including Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift, Athena and Databricks.
• Advanced data modeling for analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Ability to define and govern data architecture standards across teams.
• Proficiency in Python, PySpark and SQL; guide teams on performance and scalable design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for durable, complete, consistent data.
• Design data warehouses and data lakes with appropriate security measures.
• Develop processing and analysis algorithms for complex data workloads.
• Collaborate with data scientists to deploy machine learning models.

Skills

AWS data platforms (Glue, Lambda, S3,

Python, PySpark, SQL

Data modeling techniques

Data architecture standards

Data governance & metadata management

DevOps & CI/CD for data platforms

ML/AI workloads collaboration

Cloud security & IAM controls

DBT analytics engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Immuta

Databricks

DBT

Job description

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.

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.