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Head of UK COE and Monitoring Hub

London, United Kingdom; Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Date live: 30/01/2026

Business Area: Compliance

Area of Expertise: Data & Analytics

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000092575

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Barclays Data and Analytics

A career in Data & Analytics at Barclays is a hub for top talent, from beginners to experts, fostering innovation and excellence. You'll drive business strategy, leverage data potential, and enhance the experience of millions of customers in today’s data-driven world.

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DS&I Head of UK Centre of Excellence & Monitoring Hub (Director)

The DS&I Head of the UK CoE & Monitoring Hub is a senior leadership role within Compliance Digital Strategy & Innovation. The role leads the UK Centre of Excellence, acts as the strategic relationship lead for Data‑Led Monitoring (DLM) across the Compliance Leadership Team, and is accountable for delivering scalable analytical and digital solutions in close partnership with our Pune DS&I CoE. This position plays a critical role in aligning digital strategy with Compliance needs while upholding the highest standards of governance, risk management, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Relationship Management

  • Serve as the primary relationship lead for DLM across the Compliance Leadership Team.
  • Build strong partnerships across UK and Europe to align digital strategy with oversight goals.
  • Represent the UK DS&I CoE in regional and global innovation forums.
  • Maintain close working relationships with CTO and CIO partners to stay aligned with enterprise‑wide digital developments.

Centre of Excellence Leadership

  • Lead and develop the UK DS&I CoE, including AI, analytics, and automation talent.
  • Establish the UK CoE as a hub for digital innovation and AI experimentation.
  • Drive consistency in tooling, methodologies, and governance through close partnership with the Pune DS&I CoE.

Data‑Led Monitoring (DLM) Delivery

  • Oversee analytical design and build for DLM, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
  • Collaborate with data science, technology, and compliance teams to deliver high‑quality monitoring capabilities.
  • Leverage offshore delivery teams for build, testing, and deployment of analytical solutions.

Governance & Risk

  • Ensure all digital initiatives adhere to governance, privacy, and regulatory expectations.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks associated with digital transformation and data‑led approaches.

What You’ll Bring

  • Significant senior leadership experience in digital strategy, innovation, or analytics, ideally within financial services or regulated environments.
  • Strong understanding of compliance, risk management, and data governance.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross‑functional teams.
  • Experience delivering complex data and analytics programmes in compliance, oversight, or similar domains.
  • Excellent communication skills and strategic planning capability.
  • Expertise in AI/ML, digital transformation, and data‑led monitoring.
  • Familiarity with European regulatory contexts and experience working with offshore centres, particularly in India.
  • A leadership style that inspires innovation and drives change at scale.

About DS&I

Digital Strategy & Innovation (DS&I) is the strategic engine for digital transformation within Compliance. Our mission is to embed data‑driven oversight, modern analytics, and forward‑looking digital capabilities across the function.


We partner closely with Compliance leaders, Technology, and global DS&I teams to deliver:

  • Digital strategy and future‑state design
  • Scalable AI, automation, and analytics capabilities
  • High‑quality digital products and monitoring solutions
  • A consistent, modernised, and innovative user experience
  • Governance, tooling standards, and methodological excellence

The DS&I team operates as a global network, with UK and Pune Centres of Excellence jointly delivering digital solutions that meet the evolving needs of Compliance and the wider organisation.

Purpose of the role

To lead the development and execution of the bank's Data & Analytics strategy, aligned with the bank's overall business goals and risk appetite, ensuring data is used effectively to drive business growth, optimise operations, and mitigate risks.

Accountabilities

  • Enablement of Business or Function Unit Strategy through fostering and embedding a comprehensive understanding of how data can be used, bringing thought leadership on best practices and new capabilities to deliver Business outcomes.
  • Adherence to data policies standards and controls and inform this over time, driving Data Quality in support of use cases.
  • Partnership with the Business or Function leadership to lead the definition and prioritisation of data use cases, business data products and their implementation and realisation of benefit.
  • Prioritisation of activity required for Data and Analytics and challenge the overall end to end design and architecture.

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.

Multicultural ERGs at Barclays

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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Application Process

Your application

We’ll ask for information about you, your CV and cover letter.

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Your assessment

Covering your behaviours and ability at work.

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Your interview

Exploring your past experiences and skills.

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Next step

We’ll request additional information so that you can complete our screening process

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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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