Head of Cloud Adoption & Business Data Architecture - FTC

Purpose of the role

To develop and lead the execution of business unit/function data strategy, ensuring the effective and efficient use of data to drive informed decision-making, support regulatory and control requirements, improve operational efficiency, and generate business value. 

Accountabilities

• Definition and oversight of data governance and procedures to address control and regulatory requirements, including Data Privacy.
• Definition and oversight of data analytics and insights that support the effective management of the business and well as driving commercial outcomes.
• Development of a team of data professionals with expertise in data analytics, data engineering, data science, and other relevant disciplines.
• Analysis of the bank's current data landscape, identify key data assets and gaps, and develop a roadmap for future data initiatives.
• Monitoring team performance and setting clear performance expectations.

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.

Join us as Head of Cloud Adoption & Business Data Architecture - FTC role to lead the delivery of core components of the UK Corporate Bank Data Strategy, specifically key Cloud Adoption & Business Data Architecture elements of the Data Engineering and Integration Programme.  In addition, you will be responsible for driving alignment of consumption and adoption of UK Corporate Bank and Barclaycard Payments data, as well as capacity planning and cost optimization for the Barclaycard Payments platforms. The successful candidate will work closely with the business teams across UK Corporate Bank, as well as BX partners across Enterprise Data Platforms, CDAO, CDO, CTO, Corporate Data Services and other UK Corporate Bank Data stakeholders. Reporting directly to the Head of Data Enablement and as a senior member of the data team, they will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering end-to-end data solutions that align with our data strategy to deliver business objectives.

Essential skills:

• Strong leadership experience:  Leading and working with virtual teams across geographies and technology knowledge.
• Excellent process optimisation experience: Being able to adapt a process optimisation mentality across multiple scenarios.  This would include system performance, process performance, user journey/experience, cloud cost management.
• Proven problem solving experience: Able to demonstrate practical problem solving experience both as an individual and as empowering teams to problem solve.
• Experience of large data transformation projects: Supporting and enabling end users to adopt new simplified data landscapes and adapt to more modern tooling.
• Cloud analytics experience: First-hand experience of the additional considerations and complexities of running analytics in a cloud environment, and how to support end users to get the most out of analytics on the cloud.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience specifically using AWS cloud analytics would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in preparing senior stakeholder communication packs.  Ability to translate between technical detail and business meaning and impact.
• Good understanding of project delivery including planning, execution and risk management.
• Good understanding of data warehousing principles and SQL would be beneficial.
• Ability to drive creation of business cases to support cloud adoption.
•  Experience of using analytics tools from other cloud vendors could also be beneficial.  For example Snowflake, DataBricks.

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 can be based in London or Northampton.