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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
To define, direct, and govern the bank’s target data architecture (including shared data environment, data model, and standards) in support of business strategy, ensuring that data is accurate, secure, and accessible to meet the needs of stakeholders.
Accountabilities
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Development of the Bank’s Data Architecture Strategy
- Translate bank-wide goals and objectives into target data architecture and transition plan.
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Collaboration with Stakeholders
- Collaborate with data operations, engineers, and analysts to provide subject matter expertise and share knowledge to promote standardized, consistent, safe, and value-driven data usage.
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Development and Maintenance of Data Architecture Governance
- Develop and maintain data architecture governance, standards, and protection policies regarding data models, authoritative data stores, and data capabilities to support data quality, accuracy, and consistency and the protection of sensitive information.
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Management of Project Alignment
- Manage the alignment of projects to the target data architecture through the provision of guidance, data solutions, and monitoring of progress.
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Definition of Shared Reusable Data Capabilities
- Define the shared reusable data capabilities, assets, tools, and technologies required to connect disparate data sources, optimize data storage, and provide seamless data access.
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Custodianship of an Overarching Data Model
- Custodianship of an overarching data model that directs how data is logically and physically structured within the bank’s physical data resources, e.g., database, interfaces, and reports.
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Monitoring Regulatory Standards
- Monitor applicable regulatory standards and industry developments for potential impact on the bank's operations, controls, and application portfolio.
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Identification and Selection of Best-in-Class Data Technologies
- Identify and select best-in-class data technologies and ongoing assessment of compliance with the bank's service level agreements and quality standards.
Director Expectations
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Strategic Input and Influence
- 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.
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Leadership and Direction
- 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.
- Or for an individual contributor, they lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally.
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Training and Guidance
- Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
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Expert Advice and Resource Management
- 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.
- Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalates breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
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Compliance and External Influence
- Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
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Knowledge and Analytical Skills
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
- 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.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
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Decision Making and Stakeholder Influence
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
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Communication and Representation
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
Leadership Behaviors
- LEAD Behaviors
- Listen and be authentic.
- Energise and inspire.
- Align across the enterprise.
- Develop others.
Barclays Values and Mindset
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Barclays Values
- Respect
- Integrity
- Service
- Excellence
- Stewardship
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Barclays Mindset
- Empower
- Challenge
- Drive
Role-Specific Responsibilities
Head of Data Schema
The Head of Data Schema is accountable for defining, governing, and evolving the Investment Bank’s canonical data schemas, ensuring that business meaning, regulatory intent, and technical implementation remain consistently aligned across platforms, products, and regions. The role acts as the accountable owner for IB-wide trade data model and related governance, bridging business data definitions, regulatory requirements, and engineering delivery. This role is a critical control point for model-driven governance, supporting regulatory defensibility, platform rationalisation, and scalable data product delivery.
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Key Responsibilities
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Own the IB Canonical Trade Data Schemas
- Including core client, product, transaction, reference, and risk data models, aligned to Group standards where applicable.
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Enforce IB Data Modelling Standards
- Enforce IB data modelling standards, patterns, and conventions (conceptual → logical → physical).
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Lead Trade Data
- Lead trade data, including approvals for schema changes and domain extensions.
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Ensure Schemas Support Regulatory Reporting
- Ensure schemas explicitly support regulatory reporting, controls, and evidencing, including clear lineage from business definition to physical implementation.
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Partner with Relevant Departments
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Legal to ensure schema decisions are regulatorily defensible and auditable.
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Embed Schemas into the Delivery Lifecycle
- Embed schemas into the delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment between models, code, interfaces, and deployed data products.
Key Required Skills
- Deep, hands-on experience in enterprise and domain data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical).
- Strong understanding of IB trade schema modelling and physical schema implementation and controls.
- Proven experience operating at scale in complex, regulated financial services environments.
- Demonstrated ability to design and operate data governance frameworks that are practical and delivery-aligned.
- Experience balancing federation and standardization without stifling delivery.
- Experience with model-driven engineering, schema registries, or metadata-driven platforms.
- Familiarity with financial services standards (e.g., ISO 20022, FpML, FIX, BCBS 239 concepts).
Our Work Experience
Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard-working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
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