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Head of Data Governance Transformation

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United Kingdom , Northampton

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Job Description:

A career in Data & Analytics at Barclays is a hub for top talent, from beginners to experts, fostering innovation and excellence. You'll drive business strategy, leverage data potential, and enhance the experience of millions of customers in today’s data-driven world.

Job Responsibility:

  • Drive a culture of data controls by design across our priority customer journeys
  • Provides trustworthy, accessible data needed for new technologies (AI, cloud) and system modernizations
  • Moves governance from a compliance and defence approach to an engine for innovation by making data reliable for analytics and decision-making
  • Drives a culture of data accountability and stewardship, ensuring everyone understands their role in managing data
  • To enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM

Requirements:

  • Partnership with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks
  • Provision of guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval and disposal to business units
  • Monitoring local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement
  • Identification of opportunities for data improvement and optimisation
  • Partnership with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision making and change programs
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
  • Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working
  • Structured approach to hybrid working
  • Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
  • Focus on wellbeing
  • Big opportunities
  • The workplace of the future
  • Be you. Be valued. Belong.
  • Celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings
  • Incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience
  • Chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues
  • Encouragement to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 20, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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