Director - Quantitative Analytics

What will you be doing?

• Drive technical architecture with technology with a keen focus on Dev Ops and automation across the model development & deployment life-cycle.
• Build & maintain analytical frameworks that promote the re-use of model calculation across multiple business use-case (e.g IFRS9, CECL, Stress testing).
• Work with data scientists & quantitative model developers to drive strategic initiatives and deliver innovative financial models used for risk reporting and capital adequacy.
• Collaborate with Tech and Quantitative teams globally to develop and refine data science infrastructure in Python while driving the Modelling Data Strategy to support both model development and execution needs.
• Partner with technology to build scalable, data and analytics platforms that can connect to internal systems for pricing and/or reporting systems.
• Supervise a team of quantitative developers to build analytics by using distributed computing solutions in python.

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering or related technical fields.
• Expertise in python software development, with a depth in developing concurrent software solutions in its ecosystem.
• Ability to decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions with proven experience of leading teams.
• Excellent communicator and team player, possessing board managerial, critical problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Expertise in stakeholder management across business & technology partners with a proven ability to deliver according to the agreed timelines.
• Experience in MLOps is preferred along with Dev Ops tools such as Git, Team City.
• Experience with frameworks like kedro, mflow and platforms like databricks a plus.
• Experience in developing frameworks for mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models and analytics used in financial institution preferred.

To design, develop, implement, and support mathematical, statistical, and machine learning models and analytics used in business decision-making

• Design analytics and modelling solutions to complex business problems using domain expertise.
• Collaboration with technology to specify any dependencies required for analytical solutions, such as data, development environments and tools.
• Development of high performing, comprehensively documented analytics and modelling solutions, demonstrating their efficacy to business users and independent validation teams.
• Implementation of analytics and models in accurate, stable, well-tested software and work with technology to ope rationalise them.
• Provision of ongoing support for the continued effectiveness of analytics and modelling solutions to users.
• Demonstrate conformance to all Barclays Enterprise Risk Management Policies, particularly Model Risk Policy.
• Ensure all development activities are undertaken within the defined control environment.

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed…