# Data Architect

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Pune, Gera Commerzone SEZ
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Data Architect to support the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects. You will be responsible for planning, budgeting, and ensuring agreed quality and governance standards.

**Purpose of the role** As a Data Architect at Barclays, you will design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements.

**Accountabilities**

- Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.

- Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities.

- Best practice designs incorporating security principles that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.

- Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.

- Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit.

- Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.

- Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity, and cost impact.

- Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**

- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.

- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.

- Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.

**Basic/ Essential Qualifications:**

- Strong experience in AWS data engineering (S3, Glue, EMR, Athena, IAM).

- Advanced Python development skills for data engineering.

- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark / PySpark.

- Proven experience with Databricks (development, optimisation, notebooks, jobs).

- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow and Astronomer.

- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.

- Experience with CI/CD, Git-based version control, and DevOps practices for data platforms.

**Data & Platform Knowledge**

- Solid understanding of data modelling, lakehouse architecture, and analytics-ready data design.

- Experience implementing data quality, validation, and reconciliation frameworks.

- Familiarity with metadata, lineage, and data governance concepts.

**Banking / Enterprise Experience (Preferred)**

- Experience working in financial services or regulated environments.

- Understanding of risk, controls, and non-functional requirements (resilience, security, audit).

**Leadership & Behaviours (AVP Expectations)**

- Demonstrates ownership and accountability for technical deliverables.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset.

- Effective communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Mentors junior engineers and promotes engineering best practices.

- Champions engineering excellence, automation, and continuous improvement.

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## Skills

### Required
- AWS data engineering
- Python
- Apache Spark
- Databricks
- Apache Airflow
- Astronomer
- SQL
- CI/CD
- Git
- DevOps

### Nice to have
- Data Design & Architecture
- Data Engineering & Development
- Orchestration & Automation
- Data Quality, Governance & Controls

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