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Senior Data Modeller

Mumbai, India

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Mumbai, Maharashtra

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Date live: Jan. 07, 2026

Business Area: Markets Pre Trade

Area of Expertise: Data & Analytics

Reference Code: JR-0000031603

Contract: Permanent

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Join us as Senior Data Modeller, where you will lead the delivery of advanced analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI solutions across the APAC region. You will design and deploy scalable, governed, and regulator-ready analytics solutions aligned to Barclays’ platform-led, product-oriented data strategy, while working closely with enterprise data, architecture, and governance teams.

To be successful in this role, you should:

  • Lead the identification, design, and delivery of high-value analytics, BI, ML, and Generative AI use cases across investment banking, risk, regulatory, and operations domains
  • Design and deploy end-to-end analytics and ML pipelines, including feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, and monitoring
  • Own the full ML lifecycle, ensuring explainability, validation, governance, and controlled change in line with enterprise standards
  • Deliver executive-grade BI dashboards and AI-driven insights for senior stakeholders
  • Design and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions within secure enterprise environments
  • Build reusable, governed analytics products aligned with enterprise data product standards
  • Collaborate with Data Architects and Engineers to design and validate conceptual, logical, and dimensional data models
  • Ensure compliance with Responsible AI, data governance, security, and regulatory frameworks
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder management across teams

Essential Skills / Basic Qualifications:

  • Strong experience delivering advanced analytics, BI, ML, and AI solutions within financial services or investment banking
  • Proven end-to-end ownership of analytics and data science solutions from problem definition to business adoption
  • Hands-on expertise with modern analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL)
  • Strong SQL skills and understanding of data modelling (conceptual, logical, dimensional)
  • Experience working in regulated environments with governance, controls, and explainability requirements
  • Experience collaborating with Data Architects, Data Modelers, and enterprise platform teams
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable Skills / Preferred Qualifications:

  • Exposure to analytics engineering or DBT-based model-driven analytics
  • Experience with real-time or streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka)
  • Experience in regulatory, risk, or compliance-driven analytics initiatives
  • Familiarity with enterprise data product models and metadata-driven analytics ecosystems

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as:

  • Advanced Analytics & Data Science Leadership
  • Machine Learning Lifecycle Management
  • Data Modelling & Data Architecture Understanding
  • SQL & Data Platforms Expertise
  • Regulatory & Responsible AI Compliance
  • Stakeholder Management & Communication
  • Problem Solving and Strategic Thinking

Job location is Mumbai.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. 

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. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms.
  • Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
  • Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) 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. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate.
  • 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, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs.
  • Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes.

Vice President Expectations

  • To 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..
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
  • 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..
  • OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • 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.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.

More about working at Barclays

Barclays has been in Asia Pacific for over 50 years, supporting corporations and financial institutions across the Asia Pacific region and connecting them to the capital markets of UK, Europe and the Americas. For more information click here.

Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community.
We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

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The Barclays Way

This is the spirit of Barclays. It’s why we exist, what we believe and how we behave. But most importantly, it’s how we make decisions, take action and get things done.

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Purpose

Working together for a better financial future.

Values

We believe great talent RISES. It acts with Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Mindset

We discover our full potential through our desire to Empower, Challenge and Drive each other.

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