Senior Business Design Analyst

Senior Business Design Analyst at Barclays

We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Design Analyst to join our growing Data team, working on one of Barclays’ flagship initiatives, the Integrated Financial Crime Programme, now confirmed as a formal Project Pathway. This high-impact role will lead the delivery of advanced data products and support the development of innovative machine learning capabilities in the transaction monitoring space. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, engineers, and data scientists to take early-stage concepts through to production, shaping the next generation of financial crime detection tools at Barclays.

To be successful as a Senior Business Design Analyst, you should have experience with:

• Previous experience as a Data Lead or Product Owner, ideally within financial crime, risk, or regulatory domains.
• A background in delivering data-driven solutions, with a deep understanding of data product development.
• Experience working with or applying machine learning or advanced analytics to solve business problems.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Leadership skills with the ability to manage cross-functional teams and complex project delivery.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be located at our London or Glasgow office.

Purpose of the Role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Vice President Expectations

As an individual contributor, you will be a subject matter expert within your discipline and will guide technical direction. You will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. You will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.

• 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.

Barclays Values and Mindset

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.

Key skills/competency

• Financial Crime
• Data Product Development
• Machine Learning
• Transaction Monitoring
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Requirements Analysis
• Risk Management
• Process Design
• Advanced Analytics
• Strategic Thinking