Vice President - Data Architect

Overview

Design, implement and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models that meet business data, process and technology requirements across a wide range of platforms. Shape and evolve the data architecture strategy for trading applications at Barclays.

What you'll do

• Analyse and document business requirements and translate them into data models aligned with organisational goals.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries and glossaries that define data elements and their usage.
• Analyse and monitor data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement, in partnership with the Data Base Administrator.
• Define strategic architecture and make product selection.
• Produce logical designs in relevant subject areas (technical, data, operational), showing processes, objects, data flows, inputs, stored data and outputs.
• Identify common components.
• Implement architectures and identify, own and resolve design-related issues.
• Define and document data architecture standards, principles and strategies.
• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies or procedures.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership 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.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver architectural outcomes across upstream (trade capture) and downstream (post-trade) systems.
• Engage business and technical teams to understand current-state trade capture and processing, and drive adoption of data architecture standards across the value chain.

What you'll need

• Strong understanding of investment banking and financial markets, including end-to-end trade lifecycles, market structures, and data flow across front-to-back processes (client onboarding, trade capture, post-trade processing).
• Proven experience designing and driving adoption of unified data models (e.g., client, banking and trade data representation), including shaping proposals and supporting implementation across complex environments.
• Deep expertise in data architecture disciplines: data flow design, logical and physical data modelling, and translating business and data requirements into scalable, implementable solutions.
• Ability to work closely with engineering teams to deliver architectural outcomes and ensure alignment between design and implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engaging business and technical teams and partnering across the value chain.

Details

• Location: Pune, Gera Commerzone SEZ, India.
• Vice President role; leadership responsibilities include planning for the department's future needs, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions.
• You may be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.