Purpose of the role
To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.
At Barclays you will buildthe next-gen AI ready time-series analytics system that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes to ensure that all data isaccurate, accessible, and secure.AsaAI Data Engineer,Youwill ImplementAI‑ready data access patterns, enforcing entitlement decisions prior to data exposure to AI, LLM, and agentic workflows in line with firmgovernanceandwillbe responsible forDesignand maintain MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations per data source, including entitlement‑aware context construction and integration of metadata, lineage, and usage signals.
To be successful in this roleyou shouldpossess
Strong understanding ofLLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and context engineering
Knowledge ofMCP (Model Context Protocol)design and integration patterns
Ability to buildAI-ready retrieval pipelinesfor structured and unstructured data
Understandingprompt/context construction, grounding, and output control
Data modeling, schema design, transformation, and orchestration
Experience with APIs, event-driven integration,batch,and streaming pipelines
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Strong hands-on experience indata engineering and data pipelineswithexpertiseinstructured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
Deep understanding ofrole-based and policy-based access controlwith strong knowledge ofmetadata management
Experience withdata lineage, provenance, ownership, classification, and freshness trackingbuildingscalable, resilient, production-grade integrations
Knowledge of latency, performance optimization, resiliency, and cost management.
Familiarity with cloud and platform ecosystems such as AWS / Azure / GCP.
You may be assessed on 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.
The location of the role is Pune, IN.

Barclays is a British universal bank. Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
Barclays is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Barclays Bank PLC is registered in England and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered in England. Registered No. 1026167. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.