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Data Design Lead

London, United Kingdom; Knutsford, United Kingdom; Northampton, United Kingdom

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Date live: 24/02/2026

Business Area: Wholesale Onboarding and Group FCO

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000083388

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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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This role can be based from any Barclays strategic office location in the UK.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the Data Product Design Methodology – Define authoritative methods for data product design that build best practice data design principles into all data products, whilst being pragmatic, practical, and supportive of rapid execution.  
  • Design Governance & Compliance – Design and embed design checkpoints and data architecture governance requirements intro change processes for the execution of Group Control data product development, across business units; and ensure adherence to architecture principles through key governance forums. 
  • Lead the Global Data Design Community – Build and mentor a global team of Data Design Leads and Engineers, setting standards and establishing clear career pathways. 
  • Priority Use Case Delivery – Drive design for high-risk domains (Financial Crime, Fraud, Risk) in partnership with data platform and domain owners. Provide hands-on specialist input on the design of key priority use cases, to support success and help demonstrate best practices by leading by example. 
  • Design Quality & Reuse – Codify reusable patterns, reference architecture, and design templates, to accelerate delivery and reduce duplication. 
  • Catalogue & Metadata Excellence – Ensure data product onboarding meets policy requirements, including those for business definitions, lineage and quality SLAs for discoverability and trust. 
  • Stakeholder Leadership – Represent design at senior forums and support investment decisions for design-critical outcomes. 
  • Controls & Risk – Embed design-time controls for data quality, privacy and regulatory evidence, support auditability. Advocate the pragmatic implementation of modern, digital controls for transparency, observability, and automated compliance by design. 
  • Compliance – Ensure design artefacts meet audit and regulatory evidence standards. 
  • Ways of Working & Tooling – Standardize artefacts and integrate with Barclays’ enterprise tools and ways of working, driving consistency and cross-business unit collaboration, accelerated delivery, and enhanced quality. 
  • Talent & Culture – Champion Barclays’ values and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture across locations. 

Skills & Experience

  • Proven track record building and leading data product design teams at enterprise scale, and in large-scale data product delivery and stakeholder engagement. 
  • Previous experience as a Data Design Lead, ideally within financial crime, risk, or regulatory domains. 
  • Hands on experience of designing data products on enterprise data platform on cloud.
  • A background in delivering data-driven solutions, with a deep understanding of data product development. 
  • Deep expertise in data design, including modelling (conceptual/logical/physical), information architecture, metadata, and taxonomy management.  
  • Strong knowledge of governance and how to embed design standards into change processes in large, global, complex financial services organization's. 
  • Hands-on familiarity with modern data platforms and product curation. 
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills at senior executive level. 
  • Leadership in talent development and capability uplift across global teams. 
  • Expertise in Financial Crime and Economic Crime would be preferred. 

Role Requirements

  • Degree-level qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics or equivalent. 
  • Strong experience in data architecture and design, including experience in leading enterprise data design functions. 

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

  • Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
  • Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
  • Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
  • Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
  • Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
  • Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
  • Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Director Expectations

  • To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
  • They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • 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.
  • Escalates 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.

All Senior 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.

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.

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.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

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.

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.

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

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

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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Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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Working flexibly

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.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

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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