Director, Data Operations

BARCLAYS

Full-time Management & Operations
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Location
glasgow, scotland, United-Kingdom
Posted
June 20, 2026

Job Description

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years in data engineering and data operations
  • 6+ years managing and growing multi-person data or platform teams
  • Proven experience operating data products in production with SLA accountability (freshness, completeness, availability)
  • Strong understanding of data ingestion patterns: batch, streaming, CDC, and API-based pipelines
  • Experience establishing change management and release governance for data systems
  • Hands‑on proficiency in SQL and at least one transformation framework (dbt, Spark, or equivalent)
  • Experience with cloud data platforms; Snowflake, Big Query, Databricks, or Redshift
  • Demonstrated ability to build operational standards: runbooks, data contracts, SLO definitions
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills and able to translate data reliability issues for non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background i...