Lead Data Scientist

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To use innovative data analytics and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from the bank's data reserves, leveraging these insights to inform strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation across the organisation. 

Accountabilities

• Identification, collection, extraction of data from various sources, including internal and external sources.
• Performing data cleaning, wrangling, and transformation to ensure its quality and suitability for analysis.
• Development and maintenance of efficient data pipelines for automated data acquisition and processing.
• Design and conduct of statistical and machine learning models to analyse patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.
• Development and implementation of predictive models to forecast future outcomes and identify potential risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to seek out opportunities to add value from data through Data Science.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.

Step into a career at Barclays as a lead Data Scientist . The role holder will focus on driving the strategy for the team as well as BAU performance, and work with internal technology teams and stakeholders to meet critical demands

Essential Skills:

• Experience with problem framing and Return on Investment measurement to ensure 

• Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms (Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning) and statistical methods to choose the right approach for each business problem

• Proficient in evaluating models using metrics relevant to business goals and optimising models for accuracy, interpretability, and performance

• Scala, python or R

Desirable Skills:

• Experience designing and deploying scalable solutions, cutting edge optimisation algorithms that solve complex problems which provide clear outcomes for Sales and Operations teams

• Strong leadership skills with experience developing junior data science colleagues

• Banking Data Domain Knowledge i.e. Payments, Lending, KYC

Glasgow