Data Science Manager
Glasgow

As a Barclays Data Science Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of highly skilled and highly motivated Data Scientists who provide support to the Data Analytics function within Global Financial Crime Operations. You will focus on driving the strategy for the team as well as BAU performance, and collaborate with internal technology teams and stakeholders to meet the time critical demands of a busy Data Analytics function.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
• Being responsible for driving, challenging, and empowering a team of highly motivated and skilled individuals ensuring focus on key business requirements as well as strategic vision
• Empowering and driving the team to create, build and maintain analytical tools through programming to generate insight, recognise patterns and predict behaviour
• Empowering the team to respond to ad-hoc requests and communicate the results of any analysis, trends and MI to a range of audiences whilst effectively managing their workload
• Being responsible for focusing on a strategic vision for the Data Science function within Data Analytics, ensuring the team is in line with wider business strategies
• Being responsible for ensuring a meaningful data forensics process is provided to stakeholders across Data Analytics on key initiatives
• Experimenting and identifying with various analytical methods\techniques best suited to data challenges
• Being responsible for processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Having an active interest in all aspects of technological infrastructure, driving the team to deliver concepts for more efficient processing across multiple technical disciplines

What we’re looking for:
• An inspiring leader with prior experience leading others, as either a line or project manager
• A charismatic communicator who inspires followership and collaborates effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Highly creative, with an uncanny ability to take ambiguous briefs and transform them into concrete deliverables
• Expertise in big data technologies (spark/dask) and databases (SQL, NoSQL)

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Prior experience working in banking or financial services
• An understanding and interest in financial crime related topics, with imaginative ideas where Data Science can make a difference
• Substantial experience designing and delivering data science solutions in a complex commercial environment
• Ability to engage and clearly articulate benefits of the analytical solution, including visuals (matplotlib/seaborn plotly/D3/tableau)

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.






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