AVP - Cloud Adoption & Scalability
Barclays · Posted Oct 23
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is hiring an AVP for Cloud Adoption & Scalability within a function that builds analytical tools to generate insight, recognise patterns, predict behavior, and deliver content direct to users of information products. The role sits in the data and analytics space, supporting a corporate data modernisation programme with emphasis on data platform governance, cloud usage and cost management, and advanced analytics. The position works with technical teams, architects, designers, and administrators, and delivers forecast models, simulations, and interactive dashboards and reports for business stakeholders.
What you will do
- To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.
- Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement.
- Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
- Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
- Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements.
- Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Manage change to data platforms.
- Perform incident triage for platform issues.
- Perform root cause analysis on platform performance issues.
- Manage cloud platform usage and costs.
- Educate on the data platforms that are used across the businesses.
- Support users in accessing the platforms and adhering to the required governance.
- Advocate best practice for data platform use to maximize business value delivered.
- Identify common themes in user platform use that is sub optimal and implement training and / or support where needed.
- Championing the features that the business need.
- Translating complex technology into consumable business language.
- Supporting corporate data modernisation program.
- Design, test and build complex forecast models and simulations to identify causal links between customer behavior and business opportunities and performance.
Preferred qualifications
- Communication
- Problem solving
- SQL
- Database query optimization (and understanding of if and when optimization techniques can be used on different platforms)
- Willingness to learn new tools and platforms and then help educate others.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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