BX CDAO Data Product Management

Job Description Purpose of the role

To lead the development and execution of the bank’s Data & Analytics strategy, aligned with the bank’s overall business goals and risk appetite, ensuring data is used effectively to drive business growth, optimise operations, and mitigate risks.

Accountabilities

• Enablement of Business or Function Unit Strategy through fostering and embedding a comprehensive understanding of how data can be used, bringing thought leadership on best practices and new capabilities to deliver business outcomes.
• Adherence to data policies, standards and controls and inform this over time, driving Data Quality in support of use cases.
• Partnership with the Business or Function leadership to lead the definition and prioritisation of data use cases, business data products and their implementation and realisation of benefit.
• Prioritisation of activity required for Data and Analytics and challenge the overall end‑to‑end design and architecture.

Director Expectations

• 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.
• For an individual contributor, lead organisation‑wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross‑functionally.
• Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• 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.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up‑to‑date 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 strategic 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 / business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
• All Senior 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.
• The four LEAD behaviours are:
  • Listen and be authentic
  • Energise and inspire
  • Align across the enterprise
  • Develop others
• 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.

Essential for the role

• Curious about ways in which agentic AI can augment decision making
• Driven, Transformative, Strong sense of ownership
• Influencing skills – the ability to influence beyond immediate line management, provide convincing cases for change and provide strong thought leadership
• Leadership in prior transformational roles
• Understanding and appreciation of the importance and value of data with ability to engage and influence in both a business and technical context

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