AVP

About the Role

Join Barclays as an AVP - Cloud Adoption & Scalability. This role focuses on building analytical tools to generate insights, recognize patterns, predict behavior, and deliver content directly to users of information products. You will work collaboratively with technical teams, architects, designers, and administrators to overcome technical challenges and drive results through an agile workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage change to data platforms.
• Perform incident triage for platform issues.
• Perform root cause analysis on platform performance issues.
• Manage cloud platform usage and costs.
• Educate on the data platforms used across the businesses.
• Support users in accessing platforms and adhering to required governance.
• Advocate best practice for data platform use to maximize business value.
• Identify common themes in sub-optimal user platform use and implement training and/or support.
• Champion features needed by the business.
• Translate complex technology into consumable business language.
• Support the corporate data modernization program.
• Design, test, and build complex forecast models and simulations to identify causal links between customer behavior and business opportunities/performance.
• Investigate and analyze data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.
• Document data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement.
• Design and build data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations.
• Develop validated logical data models.
• Translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
• Identify opportunities for operational and process improvements through data-driven analysis.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools.
• Automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making.
• Contribute to policy development.
• Take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities: Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• For an individual contributor: Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members.
• Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, combining cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to keep up with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, including sensitive or difficult-to-communicate content.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Cloud Adoption
• Scalability
• Data Platforms
• Agile workflow
• SQL
• Database query optimization (and understanding of when optimization techniques can be used on different platforms)
• Machine Learning/AI
• Data Pipelines
• Data Models
• Dashboards
• Risk and Controls
• Change and Transformation
• Business Acumen
• Strategic Thinking
• Digital and Technology

Qualifications

• Manage change to data platforms.
• Perform incident triage for platform issues.
• Perform root cause analysis on platform performance issues.
• Manage cloud platform usage and costs.
• Educate on the data platforms that are used across the businesses.
• Support users in accessing the platforms and adhering to the required governance.
• Advocate best practice for data platform use to maximize business value delivered.
• Identify common themes in user platform use that is sub optimal and implement training and / or support where needed.
• Championing the features that the business need.
• Translating complex technology into consumable business language.
• Supporting corporate data modernization program.
• Design, test and build complex forecast models and simulations to identify causal links between customer behavior and business opportunities and performance.
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Willingness to learn new tools and platforms and then help educate others.
• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations.
• Develop validated logical data models.
• Translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools.
• Automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.
• Advise and influence decision making.
• Contribute to policy development.
• Take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ / or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

This role will be based out of Gurugram.