Data Transformation SME

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 10/04/2025

Business Area: Enterprise Data Platforms

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000036300

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Join Barclays as a Data Transformation SME in the Data Democratisation team within Enterprise Data Platforms. In this pivotal role, you’ll help shape the future of data at Barclays by designing and delivering robust metadata management solutions that empower our data democratisation strategy. You’ll play a key part in making data more accessible and discoverable for consumers, strengthening governance frameworks, supporting data product development for producers, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Your work will ensure that data is well-managed, easy to find, and effectively leveraged to unlock business value across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing a comprehensive metadata management framework that aligns with our data democratisation strategy.
Ensuring consistency and scalability of metadata across the organization by defining business, technical, and operational metadata standards.
Developing and maintaining data contracts and governance policies to ensure adherence to Data Quality, SLAs and data product lifecycle management.
Working closely with the Meta data and Marketplace product owners to define a cohesive end-to-end meta data solution and roadmap that automates and simplifies onboarding to the strategic data tools, including Alation, BDP, EMH, DBTx, Snowflake, etc.
Collaborating with various stakeholders, including data producers, consumers, and governance teams, to ensure seamless integration and alignment of metadata management practices. These include business users as well as CDA, CDO, CDAO, CTO, CSO, etc.

To excel in this role, you should have:

Strong Data Background: Understanding the challenges associated with data in large, established institutions and finding ways to democratise data as reusable assets.
Deep Understanding of Metadata: Expertise in big data environments and leveraging metadata to make impactful data-driven decisions.
Problem Framing and Solutionising: Ability to frame complex data problems into easy-to-understand problem statements and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to develop solutions.
Experience from strategic data transformation initiatives: Experience in driving big data initiatives end-to-end to simplify the data landscape, from legacy data analysis/assessment, to data modelling and data product creation, data governance, automation and orchestration all the way to data discovery and consumption.

Additional highly valued skills:

Good Understanding of Data Democratisation: Familiarity with the principles and practices of data democratisation.
Experience with Data Tooling: Experience in working with various data tools, incl. Snowflake, AWS, Starburst, Alation, DBT, Tableau, PowerBI, and various Data Marketplaces.
Stakeholder Communication: Proficiency in preparing senior stakeholder communication packs, including problem statements, visualising solutions, defining roadmaps, etc.

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.

The successful candidate will be based in Canary Wharf,1CP, London.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency.

Accountabilities

Enhancing Data Accessibility:

The Metadata Solution Architect will streamline the overall process of metadata capture, maintenance, and publication, making data products easy to share by data owners and easily discoverable and usable by data consumers.
By implementing a standardised metadata management framework, the architect will reduce the complexity and time required for data discovery and utilization, thereby accelerating data-driven decision-making.

Improving Data Governance:

The architect will establish governance policies and frameworks to ensure that metadata is accurate, complete, and compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
This role will also involve creating and managing data contracts, which formalize agreements between data producers and consumers, ensuring clarity and accountability in data usage.

Supporting Data Product Development:

The Metadata Solution Architect will work closely with data product teams to configure approved patterns and templates for data product components, thereby accelerating data product development.
By building metadata in-line with the code pipeline, the architect will ensure that data products are well-documented and easily maintainable.

Driving Collaboration and Alignment:

This role will facilitate collaboration between the various meta data teams, including Alation, BDP, EMH, DQ and Marketplace, to ensure that metadata management practices are aligned with EDP’s overall data strategy.
The architect will also engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, provide training, and promote best practices in metadata management.
Seek every opportunity to simplify, reuse, consolidate and automate our data processes, incl at the time of Data Hydration.

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.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. 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. 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.

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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Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community.

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.

Who succeeds in
Tech at Barclays?

For a career with us, you need to be prepared to take big steps forward, curious to face the challenges ahead, and driven to focus on the outcomes. We need people with the Barclays mindset to make it happen here.

What you'll get in return

Competitive holiday allowance

Life assurance

Private medical care

Pension contribution

Our technology

Supporting our 48 million customers and clients worldwide takes a lot of forward thinking. It means harnessing technology to support the economy. It means making a difference to people’s lives. And it requires the maintenance and development of a global, technological infrastructure. At Barclays, technology helps us keep transactions moving, manages data, and protects our customers. Join a world where your work creates unique moments of impact. Make it happen here.

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

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.

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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