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Head of Research Data Platform

New York, United States

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Date live: 01/24/2025

Business Area: Markets Pre Trade

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000002962

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Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
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Job Title: Director, Research Platform Engineering and AI

We are seeking a dynamic, visionary, and innovative professional to join our research technology team. In this role you will manage an established team of 20-30 engineers to manage and evolve our data science, business intelligence and Quantitative Portfolio platforms across AWS and On-prem environments. You will oversee usage analytics, data engineering, data product development, publication support, data science deliveries, while driving the GenAI initiatives.

This role requires a dynamic individual who can spreadhead AI innovation, and collaborate closely across lines of business to design, implement, and deliver AI-Driven solutions to enhance existing research data science platform capabilities. 

 As a technology manager, you will be responsible for both technical leadership, and people management, ensuring the team’s success in meeting research business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Team Leadership and Management:
    • Lead and mentor a team of 20-30 developers and data engineers, providing guidance, fostering collaboration, and promoting a culture of innovation and continuous learning. Manage team performance, career development, and growth.
    • Manage budget allocation for the team, tools, and cloud, ensuring efficient use of resources and alignment with project goals.
  • Platform management and support:
    • Oversee the operation, optimization, and scaling of data science and usage analytics platforms, both on AWS and On-prem, ensuring high availability and efficient resource utilization to support research analytics needs.
    • Lead data engineering efforts to design and maintain efficient data pipelines, storage solutions, and large-scale data processing systems to support data-driven products and publications.
    • Collaborate with research teams to productionize and deliver data products produced by various Research teams, including Quantitative Portfolio Strategy, Data & Investment Sciences and fundamental research analysts
    • Design, propose, develop, and establish key performance indicators to measure the success and impact of research solutions. 
    • Provide thought leadership on emerging technology trends and applications in CIB research.
  • GenAI:
    • Lead initiation, design, development, and execution of GenAI initiatives, including large language models and other AI technologies, while ensuring alignment of AI initiatives with broader business goals, regulatory standards, and data privacy
    • Collaborate with research analysts to identify opportunities where AI can optimize data gathering, sentiment analysis, recommendation, and publication. 
    • Provide thought leadership on emerging AI trends and applications in CIB research.
    • Collaborate with Dart (Rapid application development platform) engineering team to integrate GenAI models into existing templates and build repeatable, scalable infrastructure blueprints for rapid research application deployments.
    • Define and implement best practices for AI models lifecycle management, including data ingestion, model training, validation, and monitoring.

Qualification and skills:

  • Proven experience managing large tech teams, with focus on monitoring, coaching, and developing talent in data engineering, data science and platform engineering.
  • Strong background in managing, migrating, and scaling cloud-based data platforms and on-prem solutions.
  • Proven experience in leading AI/ML projects, ideally within financial services or CIB research, with focus on Generative AI, LLM, NLP, and related technologies. 
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and translate business needs into technical solution deliveries. 
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing technical execution with various teams and stakeholder needs.
  • Strong experience in collaborating with rapid application development teams to build agile, scalable solutions. 
  • Expertise in Python, SQL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or other related data science frameworks. 
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and project delivery skills, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration. 

This role offers a unique opportunity for an innovative and forward-looking professional ready to shape the future of research Data Science,  quantitative portfolio, and GenAI Platform. 

As a leader, you’ll guide the development and evolution of existing platforms while managing a diverse, talented team of engineers. You’ll be at the forefront of integrating GenAI and other cutting-edge technologies into our research technology footprint, influencing the future of our platforms.

Purpose of the role

To  lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

  • Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
  • Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
  • Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
  • Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
  • Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

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.
  • 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.

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.

Qualities we look for:motivator, supporter, connector, driver, communicator, transformer, maker, observer

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 New York

New York is home to Barclays’ US headquarters. The Americas hub for our Corporate and Investment Bank: a community of over 4,500 dedicated colleagues who create opportunities and solve challenges for some of the world’s most important companies.

Located in the heart of Manhattan, gives you a convenient location for commuting with access to everything New York can offer.

Our wellness center is equipped with modern amenities, including fitness centres offering a variety of classes and services.

Our health center provides a range of services, including primary and urgent care, wellness exams, health coaching, and vaccinations.

Our office features a variety of sophisticated dining options, including a colleague restaurant and a private executive dining room.

This is Barclays New York

New York is home to Barclays’ US headquarters. The Americas hub for our Corporate and Investment Bank: a community of over 4,500 dedicated colleagues who create opportunities and solve challenges for some of the world’s most important companies.

Excellent location

Located in the heart of Manhattan, gives you a convenient location for commuting with access to everything New York can offer.

Focused on fitness

Our wellness center is equipped with modern amenities, including fitness centres offering a variety of classes and services.

Caring for your health

Our health center provides a range of services, including primary and urgent care, wellness exams, health coaching, and vaccinations.

Great places to eat

Our office features a variety of sophisticated dining options, including a colleague restaurant and a private executive dining room.

Barclays

Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

Hybrid working: Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with 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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