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About the Role
The Head of Trade Data Modelling is accountable for defining, governing, and evolving the Investment Bank’s canonical data schemas. This role ensures business meaning, regulatory intent, and technical implementation remain consistently aligned across platforms, products, and regions. It acts as the accountable owner for IB-wide trade data models, driving the standardization of data representation and bridging business data definitions, regulatory requirements, and engineering delivery. This role is a critical control point for model-driven governance, supporting regulatory defensibility, platform rationalization, and scalable data product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define, direct, and govern the bank’s target data architecture, including shared data environments, data models, and standards.
- Develop the bank's data architecture strategy, translating bank-wide goals into a target data architecture and transition plan.
- Collaborate with stakeholders (data operations, engineers, analysts) to provide subject matter expertise and promote standardized, consistent, safe, and value-driven data usage.
- Develop and maintain the bank's data architecture governance, standards, and protection policies for data models, authoritative data stores, and data capabilities.
- Manage project alignment to the target data architecture through guidance, data solutions, and progress monitoring.
- Define shared, reusable data capabilities, assets, tools, and technologies for connecting disparate data sources, optimizing data storage, and providing seamless data access.
- Act as custodian of an overarching data model that directs logical and physical data structuring within the bank's physical data resources.
- Monitor applicable regulatory standards and industry developments for potential impact on operations, controls, and application portfolios.
- Identify and select best-in-class data technologies and assess compliance with service level agreements and quality standards.
- Own the IB canonical trade data schemas, including relationships with core subject areas.
- Enforce IB data modeling standards, patterns, and conventions.
- Lead trade data, including approvals for schema changes and domain extensions.
- Ensure schemas explicitly support regulatory reporting, controls, and evidencing, including clear lineage.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Legal to ensure schema decisions are regulatorily defensible and auditable.
- Embed schemas into the delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment between models, code, interfaces, and deployed data products.
Requirements
- Manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
- Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function.
- Plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects.
- Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture.
- Lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader.
- Identify new ways of working and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists.
- Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions.
- Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance and ensure regulations are observed.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
- Demonstrate clear leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
- Demonstrate Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
- Deep, hands-on experience in trade domain data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical).
- Strong understanding of IB trade schema modelling, and physical schema payload, 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).
Skills
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership
- Influence
- Data architecture
- Data modeling
- Data governance
- Regulatory standards
- Financial services standards
Experience Level
- Senior Leader
About the Company
- Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.