Barclays

Platform & Portfolio Governance, Risk & Engineering Insights Lead - VP

Barclays$155K — $225K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in project management or a related field
  • Strong understanding of technology portfolio governance and delivery models
  • Expertise in Agile or Lean methodologies
  • Proven ability to communicate complex ideas and present to senior stakeholders
  • Experienced in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and financial tracking
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing teams and cross-functional collaboration
  • Solid background in risk assessment and management within regulated environments.

Responsibilities

  • Manage change projects to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery
  • Develop and oversee project plans detailing scope, resources, and timelines
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders about project progress and needs
  • Lead and support project teams to fulfill objectives and deliverables
  • Create status reports and mitigate risks to ensure project success
  • Facilitate change management activities to embed new processes within the organization
  • Establish operating rhythms to enhance execution transparency and alignment across teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions
  • Life insurance and paid leave options
  • Opportunities for incentive awards based on performance
  • Access to continuous learning and development programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities
  • Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
  • Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
  • Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
  • Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
  • Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
  • Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
  • Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.


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.


Embark on a transformative journey as a Platform & Portfolio Governance, Risk & Engineering Insights Lead - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear - to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will improve how colleagues serve clients, manage risk, and deliver change. In this role, you will support a platform modernization and process simplification agenda within Markets Sales Technology, driving functional guidance across portfolio transparency, platform health, risk, and coordinate positivity, Cyber, DevOps maturity, engineering health, and executive strategy support across new and existing application landscapes.

To be successful as a Platform & Portfolio Governance, Risk & Engineering Insights Lead - VP, you should:

  • Retain CIO and senior guidance reporting by delivering strategy-ready briefings, portfolio dashboards, progress narratives, and risk and escalation insights that support alignment, prioritization, and timely capacity action
  • Define and track portfolio KPIs, success metrics, benefits realization, delivery performance, engineering quality, DevOps maturity, resiliency, stability, Cyber posture, and risk and structure indicators
  • Support budget planning and tracking for a multi-million-dollar technology portfolio, including variance evaluation, financial commentary, teams alignment, and linkage between spend, priorities, and delivery outcomes
  • Partner with Cyber, Risk, Coordinates, ORAC, DevOps, and enterprise governance functions to embed requirements into delivery, track audit and risk items, and drive closure before they become late-stage blockers
  • Establish a lightweight portfolio operating rhythm that improves execution transparency, connects delivery, financials, engineering health, resiliency, stability, and risks, and enables timely influence action without duplicating existing accountabilities


Other highly valued skills include:

  • Experience in technology portfolio governance, programme delivery, business guidance, COO-style enablement, or operating model execution within financial services or another regulated enterprise environment
  • Considerable understanding of the engineering delivery lifecycle, Agile or Lean delivery models, risk and coordinates environments, Cyber expectations, DevOps practices, resiliency, stability, engineering standards, and enterprise governance requirements
  • Validated ability to create executive-level presentations, dashboards, narratives, success stories, innovation updates, and accord papers that translate delivery activity into business outcomes
  • Ability to engage senior stakeholders across Technology guidance, product owners, tech supports, architects, PMO, Finance, central Risk, Cyber, DevOps teams, and Sales and Markets stakeholders


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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $155,000
Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company. The company was founded in 1690 and is headquartered in London, England. Barclays provides a range of financial services, including retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and wealth management. The company operates in over 40 countries and has over 83,000 employees. In 2020, Barclays reported revenue of £21.8 billion and net income of £1.5 billion. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Learn more about Barclays
Size
81,600 employees
Market Cap
$30.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
-5%
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