Business Data Analyst

Northampton, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90276796

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Business Data Analyst
Northampton

As a Barclays Business Data Analyst you will be a key member of the data provisioning team, dealing with our more technically savvy stakeholders, data developers and business analysts (BAs). You will be responsible for eliciting technical requirements and running workshops and ensuring that these requirements are understood by our developers, and once built, will be involved in testing and reconciling the data.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

This opportunity is open to dynamic working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process

What will you be doing?
• Acting as an interface between the business and the data developer teams
• Working closely with the business to capture and document the business requirements and translate them into technical requirements, process flows and data flows
• Analysing and understanding the data created by the data developer teams and interpret this for our stakeholders
• Eliciting the technical requirements regarding data limitations and reconciliation
• Reconciling data, investigating and explaining any gaps to stakeholders
• Testing the ETL processes used to support the enterprise data environment that consist of Big Data technologies
• Feeding into the design of scalable and secure data solutions that will be consumed by business applications such as statistical models or MI reports
• Working collaboratively with a cross-functional team of ETL developers, Business Intelligence designers, architects, BAs and infrastructure engineers

What we’re looking for:
• Stakeholder management ability, experience in managing high severity incidents and working under pressure
• Experience of creating business analyst artifacts
• Experience of working with large structured and semi structured data stores to resolve business queries
• A good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle & experience of working on IT deliver projects

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Proven experience of ETL tools like Ab Initio
• Knowledge of Hadoop Ecosystem – Cloudera distribution is preferred
• Experience working with Consumer, Risk or Finance departments
• Knowledge of Hadoop components mainly HDFS, Zookeeper, YARN, HBASE, Hive, Impala, SparkSQL

Where will you be working?
Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997.
We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton. Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45 it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

More about working at Barclays

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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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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