Senior Data Engineer – VP

Barclays•New York, NY

18h•$170,000 - $230,000

About The Position

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. Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Data Engineer – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you’ll work on a greenfield data and intelligence platform for Equities, helping to shape the architecture, tooling, and strategic direction of a modern data ecosystem. You’ll collaborate with global engineering and business teams to enable scalable analytics, real-time insights, and data-driven decision-making across the trading business.

Requirements

Python for data engineering and services, including FastAPI, PySpark, Pydantic, and asyncio
Cloud platforms and data services across AWS such as EC2, ECS/Fargate, EMR, Glue, and S3
Data orchestration and workflow tools such as Airflow or Dagster
Modern data lake and storage ecosystems including Iceberg, Parquet, and data catalogs
Caching and performance optimization for production systems such as Redis

Nice To Haves

Experience with Databricks or Snowflake
Observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana or Splunk
Streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka

Responsibilities

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.
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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
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.
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
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.
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.
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.
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive