Data Delivery Lead - Corporate & Investment Banking

Job Title: Data Delivery Lead/ Data Squad Lead - Corporate & Investment Banking Location: London - Liverpool Street Contract: 6 months (potential extension) Working pattern: Hybrid - 2-3 days per week in the office Job Type: Full-time Rate: Circa £745/Day

We are looking for an experienced Data Delivery Lead/ Data Squad Lead to join a leading financial services organisation, supporting its Corporate & Investment Banking data platform and delivery function.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in Corporate or Investment Banking, combined with experience leading data delivery teams and working across enterprise data platforms.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring banking data is effectively integrated, processed, mapped and made available across the organisation to support a range of business initiatives.

Essential Skills and Experience

Strong experience within Corporate Banking, Investment Banking or Corporate & Institutional Banking. Good understanding of banking data, business processes and associated data domains. Experience working with enterprise data platforms and understanding how data is ingested, processed, integrated and consumed. Understanding of data mapping, data modelling and data integration principles. Proven experience managing or leading data delivery teams, squads or technical delivery functions. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage both business and technical teams. Ability to understand and challenge technical decisions relating to data processing, mapping and logic. Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments. Running Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. Ensures meetings are productive and time-boxed. Educates the team and stakeholders on Scrum principles and Agile practices. Helps the team improve continuously and adopt Agile mindsets. Supports the team by removing obstacles and enabling progress. Experience with using Atlassian JIRA

Key Responsibilities

Lead and manage data delivery squads, ensuring effective planning, prioritisation and delivery. Work closely with Corporate & Investment Banking stakeholders to understand business data requirements. Oversee the integration, processing and consumption of data across enterprise data platforms. Provide oversight of data mapping, modelling and processing logic. Challenge technical teams to ensure data is accurately mapped, structured and connected with existing platform data. Manage relationships with business stakeholders, engineering teams and delivery resources. Monitor delivery progress, dependencies, risks and priorities. Support Agile delivery practices and ensure transparent communication across the team. Work across different business initiatives and data domains as delivery priorities evolve.

Desirable Experience

Previous experience working within a major banking or financial services organisation. Experience with modern data platforms, including Databricks, data lakes or data warehouses. Experience working with Scrum teams and Agile delivery frameworks. Experience managing multiple data-related business initiatives.

This is not a hands-on software development or data engineering position. The successful candidate should have sufficient technical understanding to challenge and guide engineering teams, rather than being responsible for writing code.

We are looking for candidates who combine strong Corporate & Investment Banking domain knowledge with data platform understanding and proven delivery leadership.

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