Barclays - Assistant Vice President - Data Modelling

What will you be doing?

Data Design (70%)

- Design, implementation and maintenance of ETL data models and data solutions, including conceptual, logical, operational and physical models.

- Serve as a data custodian to facilitate the resolution of business issues and develop enterprise data models and dictionaries, translating business needs into long-term architecture solutions.

- Production of technical standards and guidelines for data and associated technologies, whilst assisting in the development of architectural roadmaps and other Enterprise Architecture in the data domain.

- Providing architectural intervention and technical data leadership throughout the life cycle of development change programmes.

- Exploit the current Enterprise Architecture, for the application of IT Strategy and ensuring architectural conformance through governance, enforcing the re-use of existing data structures, where appropriate, to minimise development time.

- Able to actively participate in the evaluation of new technology packages

- Collective ownership of the Enterprise Data Models, ensuring that they are maintained in a timely manner.

- Maintains knowledge of relevant technical specialisms at the highest level, by reading appropriate literature, attending conferences and seminars, meeting and maintaining contact with other leading practitioners of the technical specialism and though playing a major role in appropriate learned, professional and trade bodies

- Challenges business requirements and demands to ensure high-quality candidate solutions are created and considered.

- Apply innovative thinking to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives in line with Cluster and Group IT Strategies, rather than just responding to a pre-defined request

Build/Test Support (10%)

- Maintenance of ETL data models through build and test phases of the development life cycle.

- Production of documentation that can be used to support the build and test phases.

Strategy Development/Consultancy (20%) :

- Supports the creation of appropriate data modelling, data management strategies for the relevant business areas

- Supports the development and promotion of technology usage patterns to provide guidance to business areas in the use of data models

- Provide advice, guidance and data design input for areas requiring initial support.

- Provide high level estimates to support the development of business cases, with a view to obtaining initial funding

What we're looking for:

- High Performing - sets a high standard for own performance in achieving the organisations goals

- Collaborative - works with immediate architecture team members and wider organisation to achieve results and consensus

- Creates and maintains a culture in which trust and mutual respect are valued and is not afraid to challenging people and systems that do not support this

- Champions a culture where all colleagues understand and follow the framework within which the bank assesses risk and accountability

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Data Modelling and Solution Design at a Large Financial Institution

- Practical experience of Data Modelling Concepts and when to employ them

- Strong analytical skills that demonstrate understanding business processes, systems and data

- Strong practical experience with data flow diagrams, capturing and using meta-data, data modelling, relational databases and bridge forward/bridge back data techniques

- Broad knowledge of emerging open-source Integration technologies

- Knowledge of cloud based architectures

- Experience in ER studio.