Lead Big Data Engineer - VP

About the Role

Embark on a transformative journey as a Lead Big Data Engineer - VP at Barclays, contributing to strategic transformation projects to modernize risk calculation, aggregation, and reporting platforms. This role offers the opportunity to develop a unified aggregation capability supporting both Front Office and Risk functions, enabling scalable, high-performance risk analytics across the organization. As a Big Data Subject Matter Expert, you will design, build, and enhance core platform capabilities, ensuring shared services such as metadata management, workflow orchestration, operational controls, data governance, and platform housekeeping meet the highest standards. You will collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, and resilient data solutions that support critical risk and regulatory requirements while driving operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Contribute to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and optimizing product roadmaps.
• Design and implement complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers to elevate the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization.
• Collaborate with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive innovation by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process.
• Lead the design and implementation of distributed data architectures and ETL/ELT workflows using Spark, cloud storage, and modern big data technologies.
• Ensure solutions meet stringent compliance, governance, security, audit, and data privacy requirements in a highly regulated industry.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to your team’s work.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including risk, compliance, and business stakeholders, to deliver regulatory-compliant data and application solutions.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Java, Scala, Apache Spark, Amazon S3, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, and cloud-based big data platforms.
• Proven ability to design, develop, and optimize large-scale data processing solutions.
• Considerable hands-on programming experience in Java, Python, .NET, and Unix/Linux shell scripting.
• Experience developing high-performance applications, automation frameworks, and scalable data pipelines in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed data architectures and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Proven experience working in highly regulated industries, delivering technology solutions that meet stringent compliance, governance, security, audit, and data privacy requirements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, architecture, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of regulated financial services environments, with experience supporting risk, trading, or regulatory technology functions.
• Solid understanding of information security principles, controls, and industry best practices, including secure software development, data protection, access management, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional Agile teams.
• Domain knowledge of market risk and regulatory frameworks, including hands-on experience with regulations such as FRTB Standardized Approach (SA) and Internal Models Approach (IMA).
• Deep expertise in at least one major asset class such as Foreign Exchange (FX), Interest Rates (IR), Credit, Equities, or Commodities, with a good understanding of associated products, risk measures, pricing, and trading workflows.

Vice President Expectations

• 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions.
• Lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short and long-term goals while ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others (LEAD).
• For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi-year assignments, and train less experienced specialists.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas to keep up with business activity and strategies.
• Adopt outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
• Eligibility for an incentive award.

Pay

Base salary range: $170,000 – $230,000.

Schedule

This role is located in the Whippany, NJ office.