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Data Delivery Lead

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 17/04/2026

Business Area: Group Economic Crime COO

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000083484

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Barclays Change

Change leads and oversees transformational change initiatives at Barclays. Your role will involve managing projects and programs that drive strategic improvements and ensure successful implementation of change across the organization.

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  • Key Responsibilities 

  • Provide leadership and oversight across the full data transformation lifecycle, ensuring data design, sourcing, hydration, and use‑case execution remain aligned to Group Control priorities.
  • Own and drive a coordinated view of EDP roadmap dependencies across business units, control pillars, technology partners, and platform teams.
  • Ensure that EDP use cases, including those leveraging platforms such as Databricks, are clearly defined, sequenced, and supported with the right data artefacts and design decisions.
  • Lead engagement between Group Control Data and Analytics, Data Product Owners, Data Designers, and cross‑functional partners to ensure data designs meet agreed standards and can be delivered efficiently through technology teams.
  • Maintain clear separation of responsibilities by ensuring this role focuses on data design, EDP alignment, and transformation oversight, while technology engineering teams remain accountable for technical delivery and build.
  • Provide steer and challenge to ensure data‑related risks, dependencies, and design decisions are surfaced early and resolved through appropriate governance forums.
  • Skills & Experience 
  • Proven experience in large-scale delivery and stakeholder engagement. 
  • Strong programme and project management skills, including governance and risk management. 
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior executive level. 
  • An understanding of data platforms, data product lifecycle, and agile delivery methodologies. 
  • Ability to manage complex inter-dependencies across multiple business units and technology teams. 
  • Leadership experience in building and developing high-performing teams. 
  • An understanding of data product development, especially within Financial or Economic Crime would be desirable. 

Purpose of the Role 

Lead and coordinate the delivery of the end‑to‑end data transformation agenda across Group Control Data and Analytics, ensuring that data products, EDP use cases, and wider data‑design requirements are executed effectively and in alignment with enterprise data strategy. The role focuses on managing EDP roadmap dependencies, cross‑functional alignment, stakeholder engagement, and data‑design delivery—distinct from, and complementary to, technology build and engineering delivery. 

Director Expectations 

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. 

Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function. 

Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. 

Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence. 

Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate. 

Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives. 

Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives. 

Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations. 

Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area. 

Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally. 

Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions. 

Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division. 

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

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Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

This is Barclays London

Our global HQ is in Canary Wharf, at the heart of London’s financial district. There are over 10,000 colleagues here – a hugely diverse workforce made up of the world’s best financial and tech talent. If you love the buzz of city life, this is the place to be.

Supporting active commuters

Cycle or run to work? We’ve got everything you need – from cycle hire and parking areas to new showering and changing facilities.

Time to connect

CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened.

Wellbeing in focus

Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Advanced trading floors

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

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Your assessment

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We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

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Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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