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Visualisation & UX Lead

lead · Technology / Software Development

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To  lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They 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. They 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.

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, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as Visualisation & UX Lead, where you'll spearhead the delivery of the technology stack, using strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions coming up with the process design of the Foundational / Consolidated and Business data Products. You will be working on complex technical problems that will involve detailed analytical skills and analysis. This will be done in conjunction with fellow engineers, business analysts, and business stakeholders.

To be successful as a Visualisation & UX Lead, you should have experience with: 

• Translate business requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications that balance user needs with strategic objectives. 

• Lead the design of dashboards and reports with a focus on usability, accessibility, and impact, agnostic of specific visualisation tools. 

• Guide junior developers during the build phase, providing expertise, support, and quality assurance. 

• Facilitate and participate in the VUX Forum, presenting designs for peer challenge, feedback, and approval, ensuring adherence to agreed standards. 

• Establish and uphold visualisation standards and design principles that deliver consistency, clarity, and accessibility across the organisation. 

• Partner with stakeholders to validate prototypes, confirm fitness-for-purpose, and secure buy-in before development & conduct review and approval at key delivery gates to ensure outputs meet design, usability, and business expectations. 

• Contribute to centralised guidance, templates, and resources, supporting the upskilling of the broader analytics community & act as champions of visual design thinking, promoting the shift from “tool operation” to designing for impact. 

• Collaborate closely with data engineering and BI development teams to ensure data models, semantic layers, and metadata structures support intended design outcomes.  

• Leverage storytelling techniques to turn complex data into compelling, actionable narratives using annotations, guided insights, and contextual framing & perform heuristic evaluations of existing dashboards to identify opportunities for simplification, optimisation, and redesign.  

 Some other highly valued skills may include:

• A self-starter with good communication & and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong design thinking skills with a focus on usability and accessibility. 

• Experience in creating impactful dashboards and data visualisations (tool-agnostic, though Tableau experience is a plus) & the ability to translate business requirements into clear, intuitive designs. 

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.

The location of the role is Pune, IN.