Barclays
Astronomer Platform Engineer
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Join Barclays as an Astronomer Platform Engineer
Play a key role in building, managing, and optimising a modern data orchestration platform that enables reliable, scalable, and secure data workflows across the organisation. You will drive platform excellence, support engineering teams, and help accelerate the delivery of business-critical data solutions.
To be successful as an Astronomer Platform Engineer, you should have experience with:
- Astronomer / Apache Airflow Platform Administration: ensuring reliable orchestration and operational stability of data workflows
- Kubernetes & Cloud Platform Engineering (AWS Preferred): delivering scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure
- DevOps, CI/CD & Platform Automation: streamlining deployments and improving engineering efficiency through automation
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:
- Python & Data Pipeline Engineering
- Observability & Monitoring
- Enterprise Data Platform Integration
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Northampton.
Purpose of the Role
To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.
Accountabilities
- Build and maintain data architecture pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete, and consistent data.
- Design and implement data warehouses and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
- Develop processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
- Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.
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Assistant Vice President Expectations
- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- 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, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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
- For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
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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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