# Lead Data Analyst

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Glasgow
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Data Analyst to play a key role in enabling data-driven transformation across the bank. You will 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.

**Responsibilities**

- 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

**Vice President Expectations**

- Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change

- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures

- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does

- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business

- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies

**Requirements**

- Strong banking/domain knowledge is valuable, but hands-on data analysis and modelling capability is the key discriminator

- Demonstrable SQL proficiency for data profiling, reconciliation, investigation, and root-cause analysis

- Able to translate business and data requirements into BRDs/FRDs, epics, capabilities, features, user stories and clear acceptance criteria

- Experience with source-to-target mapping and transformation rules across complex data landscapes

**Nice to Have**

- Practical experience defining Data Quality rules, identifying exceptions, and driving remediation

- Strong understanding of data lineage and authoritative source identification

- Evidence of working hands-on with Data Products, shaping the underlying data rather than primarily managing the backlog

- Exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake / Databricks / cloud data ecosystems is highly desirable

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- data analysis
- data modelling
- data pipelines
- machine learning/AI

### Nice to have
- Data Quality rules
- data lineage
- Data Products
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- cloud data ecosystems

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