Director - Data Scientist CoS Office

Barclays
London
1 month ago
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Job Description

Purpose of the role
We are seeking a senior and experienced Data Scientist to join our Investment Bank. This role presents a unique opportunity to bring your leadership and expertise on leveraging financial data, including revenues, balances, and risk-weighted assets (RWAs) to support broader client data strategies.

Accountabilities:

  1. Link and structure datasets to create a unified and curated data repository.
  2. Develop and apply AI/ML models to extract meaningful insights from financial and non-financial datasets.
  3. Enhance reporting tools and data visualization to facilitate strategic decision-making at the highest levels and across client facing teams.
  4. Play a leading role in driving and implementing strategic client data initiatives aligned with the teams mandate.
  5. People leader responsibilities including overseeing and developing talent across the team.

Essential Skills:

  1. Proficiency in large language models, machine learning, Python, SQL, cloud solutions, and Tableau.
  2. Solid understanding of financials, e.g. revenues, capital and balance sheet management.
  3. Ability to present complex data-driven insights in a clear and actionable manner for senior leadership.
  4. Proactive approach to handling data consolidation, strategic implementation, and insights generation.
  5. Proven track record of project planning and stakeholder management across the enterprise including front office partners.
  6. Excellent presentation skills.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Director Expectations

  1. To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
  2. Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
  3. 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.
  4. Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
  5. Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
  6. Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
  7. Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
  8. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve overall business objectives.
  9. 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.
  10. Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
  11. Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
  12. Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
  13. Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
  14. 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.

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