AVP - Cloud Adoption & Scalability

About the role

Barclays is looking for an Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Cloud Adoption and Scalability in its Data & Analytics team, based in Gurugram, India. The role builds analytical tools that turn data into insight, works with technical teams, architects, designers and administrators, and takes ownership of key initiatives through an agile workflow. The position is permanent.

Key responsibilities

• Manage change to data platforms, perform incident triage and root cause analysis on platform performance issues, and manage cloud platform usage and costs
• Educate users on the data platforms used across the business, support them in accessing the platforms and adhering to governance, and advocate best practice
• Identify sub-optimal patterns in user platform use and implement training or support, champion needed features, and translate complex technology into business language
• Support the corporate data modernisation programme and design, test and build complex forecast models and simulations linking customer behaviour to business outcomes
• Analyse data quality, lineage and controls, document sources and methods, and recommend improvements
• Design and build data pipelines to automate data movement and processing, and apply advanced analytics and machine learning/AI to large datasets
• Create interactive dashboards and visual reports, and automate reporting for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs

Required profile

• Experience managing change to data platforms, incident triage, root cause analysis and cloud cost management
• Ability to educate users, support them and champion best practice
• Leadership expectations: advise and influence decisions, contribute to policy, lead a team, set objectives, coach employees and manage risk and controls
• Legal right to work in India; the role may be subject to enhanced governance and regulatory compliance obligations

Required skills

• Desirable: SQL and database query optimisation
• Desirable: willingness to learn new tools and platforms and help educate others