Senior Data Scientist/AI Engineer – Vice President

Purpose of the role

To use innovative data analytics and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from the bank's data reserves, leveraging these insights to inform strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation across the organisation. 

Accountabilities

• Identification, collection, extraction of data from various sources, including internal and external sources.
• Performing data cleaning, wrangling, and transformation to ensure its quality and suitability for analysis.
• Development and maintenance of efficient data pipelines for automated data acquisition and processing.
• Design and conduct of statistical and machine learning models to analyse patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.
• Development and implementation of predictive models to forecast future outcomes and identify potential risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to seek out opportunities to add value from data through Data Science.

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 escalate 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.

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as Senior Data Scientist/AI Engineer – Vice President, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Risk function you will join a new team within Global Operational Risk and Risk Oversight, focusing on developing data driven capabilities and insights to increase the breadth and depth of Operational Risk oversight. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining modern capabilities (e.g. Machine Learning Models, AI solutions, Analytical techniques) that leverage structured and unstructured data sources, to deliver enhanced risk insights to SME’s (e.g. pattern recognition, pockets of undetected risk, exception/anomaly detection, increased coverage of areas previously below the line due to resource constraints). Additionally, your role requires effective stakeholder management, leadership, and decision-making to support business strategy and risk management. To maintain open dialogue with modelers and validation teams on model developments and reviews and address data queries from user community.

To be successful as a Senior Data Scientist/AI Engineer – Vice President, you should have experience with: 

• Proficient in developing and utilising various machine learning and AI tools/techniques to develop and implement models/analysis, with considerable technical and analytical skills.
• Deep understanding and practical experience in utilising SOTA (state of the art) LLM’s elegantly within solutions, as well as deploying best practice development approaches e.g. Evals for AI systems.
• Skilled in managing and processing data from multiple sources, ensuring accurate and efficient data flow, and applying data analytics techniques.
• Capable of understanding and translating complex business requirements into practical solutions, focusing on value creation for the team.
• A self-starter. This is a new team requiring ground up development. That should be exciting as no legacy constraints are in play.
• Hands on experience in coding with Python and SQL,  R etc.
• Data visualization tools – ETL or Tableau.
• Possess some domain knowledge in tech risk and cyber risk, having built predictive and analytical models to generate actionable insights, previously.
• Working knowledge with Spark.
• Working experience with large volume of data sets with multiple sources.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Skilled in developing AI Agents utilizing products such as Microsoft Co-pilot Studio.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing industry-leading models to solve complex problems.

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.

The location of the role is Noida, IN or Pune, IN. This requisition has multiple positions.