Lead BI Engineer - IDL Technology

Purpose of the role

To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports, compelling visualisations and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), data insights and trends across various business units. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards utilisng best practices in data visualisation principles and design aesthetics to ensure clarity, accuracy, and accessibility.

• Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes and visualisation methodologies for improved efficiency and timeliness. 

• Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.

• Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.

• Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data, performing exploratory data analysis & data cleansing and seeking signoffs as required. 

• Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting and visualisations.

Vice President Expectations

• 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• 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.

Join us as a “Lead BI Engineer - IDL Technology " at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a “Lead BI Engineer - IDL Technology", you should have experience with:

  Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in data engineering, data management, governance, lineage, metadata management, reconciliation, and data quality frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern data lake architectures on AWS, Azure etc.
• Experience building and scaling BI and analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to deliver self-service reporting, operational insights, and advanced analytics capabilities.
• Proven experience building enterprise services using Java, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native technologies.
• Track record of driving automation, DataOps, AI-enabled solutions, observability, and engineering excellence, while leading high-performing Agile engineering teams.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, regulatory data requirements, and risk & control frameworks.
• Expertise in real-time and batch data processing, data integration, enrichment, and analytics platforms.
• Ability to translate complex business objectives into scalable data products and actionable insights.
• Passion for leveraging GenAI, machine learning, and emerging technologies to accelerate innovation and decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across business and technology leadership.

This role is based out of Pune.