# Chief of Data Analytics Data Architect

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Chief of Data Analytics Data Architect to play a key part in shaping and evolving our data architecture strategy. You will help enhance our trading applications across the organisation, enabling consistency, scalability, and better decision making across teams.

**Purpose of the role** As a Data Architect, you will design, implement, and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models that meet business data/process and technology requirements. You will use designs and data strategies across a wide selection of platforms.

**Accountabilities**

- Analyse and document business requirements to translate them into data models aligned with organisational goals.

- Develop and maintain data dictionaries and glossaries to define data elements and their usage.

- Analyse and monitor data usage patterns to identify opportunities for data optimisation and improvement, in partnership with the Data Base Administrator.

- Define strategic architecture and select products.

- Produce logical designs in relevant subject areas, showing processes, objects, data flows, inputs, stored data, and outputs.

- Implement architectures and resolve design-related issues.

- Define and document data architecture standards, principles, and strategies.

**Vice President Expectations**

- Contribute to 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.

- Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.

**Requirements**

- Financial markets experience, with an advanced understanding of trade lifecycles, market structures, and data flows.

- Experience developing proposals for a unified trade data model/representation and supporting its implementation.

- Expertise in data architecture, including data flow design, logical and physical data modelling, and translating data requirements into solutions.

- Ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver changes across upstream and downstream systems.

**Other highly valued skills**

- Previous experience working in front office environments.

## Skills

### Required
- data architecture
- data modelling
- financial markets
- trade lifecycles
- data flows

### Nice to have
- front office environments

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