DA Data Scientist Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Data Scientist
Glasgow
As a Barclays Data Scientist, you will support the tuning process and operation by providing support for the technological services used by the team and ensuring the development and delivery of high-quality data forensics. In your role, you will conduct analytical and development work, as well as collaborate with the Barclays internal technical teams to ensure continued delivery of the platforms used.
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?
- Producing meaningful data forensics to support the delivery of tuning & list related initiatives
- Building and maintaining analytical tools through programming to generate insight, recognise patterns and predict behaviour
- Experimenting and identifying with various analytical methods\techniques best suited to data challenges
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Responding to ad-hoc requests and communicate the results of any analysis, trends and MI to a range of audiences whilst effectively managing your workload
- Suggesting and helping to deliver technological infrastructure concepts for more efficient processing across multiple technical disciplines
- Developing an understanding of Financial Crime preventative measures, systems, and operational processes within Barclays
- Supporting the delivery of automation initiatives in-line with the wider Group strategy
What we’re looking for:
- Good interpersonal skills which will be used to maintain relationships with multiple business areas, including Senior Leadership and Compliance
- Ability to manage and lead laterally and upwards across multiple discipline technical areas
Skills that will help you in the role
- Good quantitative and statistical skills and ability to solve problems logically and methodically
- Experience in data manipulation of large datasets through the use of analytical tools (e.g. Tableau, SQL, VBA, Python, R) and a willingness to learn new languages
- Good understanding and experience of big data technologies and the underlying big data approach
- Organisational skills to manage projects and appropriate timescales while delivering measurable benefits to the organisation
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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