Job Description

Lead Data Engineer
Glasgow

As a Barclays Lead Data Engineer you will be joining Investment Banking Services team within Investment Banking Technology area. You will be instrumental in implementing the technology platforms that are designed to meet business demand and are scalable so as to accommodate future business growth. The team follows Agile delivery model and has built multiple DevOps tools for consistent and efficient delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to actively engage in ambitious and challenging projects to demonstrate your confidence and knowledge.

Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Developing and supporting scalable, extensible, and highly available data pipelines on heterogeneous datasets that power downstream applications
• Collaborating with partners across product and design, engineering, and business teams to drive innovations that improve our customers\xe2\x80\x99 experience
• Following software-development best practices including test-driven development, contributing to documentation, featuring flagging, etc
• Helping to maintain and improve existing ETL pipelines, by extracting data from one system and transforming and loading it to a target repository
• Working with your team to troubleshoot and fix issues in ingest and processing, considering dependencies and integration points
• Collaborating with DevOps to plan resources and continuously optimize the infrastructure
• Delivering on critical business priorities while evolving platform towards its strategic vision
• Partnering with technology teams to design and architect solutions that align to Barclays Architecture, Data and Security standards, while utilizing best-of-breed technology

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in a Computer Science, Mathematics or Scientific discipline
• Solid expertise in advanced data modeling, schema and ETL process design, implementation, and maintenance
• Experience with numerous data lake / warehouse technologies / (Redshift, Spectrum)
• Exposure to Cloud experience (AWS / GCP)

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Financial services knowledge in Investment banking and collateral management
• Industry best practices in Architectural methodologies and standards
• Experience with different variety of data types (JSON, Parquet, Excel, Flat files)
• Experience with databases and data storage frameworks including: Azure SQL, Postgresql

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new ambitious career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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