Vice President Data Product Owner

• Spearhead the evolution of defining and executing the strategy, vision, and roadmap for data products that enable Barclays to leverage data as a strategic asset
• This role ensures that data products deliver measurable business value, comply with governance standards, and support innovation across multiple business domains

• Act as the primary liaison for senior stakeholders across technology, operations, and business units
• Influence decision-making and secure alignment on product priorities and investments
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring clear prioritization and timely delivery
• Oversee release planning, sprint prioritization, and coordination of cross-team dependencies
• Ensure adherence to data governance principles, privacy regulations, and security standards
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with product development and delivery
• Track adoption, usage, and performance metrics to assess product success
• Recommend enhancements based on data-driven insights and emerging technologies
• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models
• 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
• 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

Candidates with experience in Banking / Finance domain preferred

• Competitive holiday allowance
• Life assurance
• Private medical care
• Pension contribution