Join Barclays as a Technology Risk & Control Lead, where you will drive the oversight and management of technology risk and controls, ensuring compliance across cyber security, technology, and regulatory frameworks. You will identify and assess technology vulnerabilities, oversee remediation plans, and provide clear risk insight and reporting to senior leaders. Leading a team of five risk professionals across Knutsford and Northampton, you will support the delivery of risk and control metrics, partner with delivery teams to manage risk effectively, and help strengthen the bank’s overall technology risk and control environment.
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:
- Proven experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to effectively manage performance and drive results.
- Strong understanding and knowledgeable on aspects of Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), Operational Risk Framework (ORF) and Control Frameworks.
- A solid understanding of core IT infrastructure components, including Linux or Windows Server OS, MS SQL or Oracle databases, networks, load balancers, and storage systems.
- A collaborative mindset, with experience supporting business stakeholders and working seamlessly with technical teams across multiple geographies.
- Ability to influence at senior management level and apply judgement to balance risk versus business interest whilst ensuring compliance to all relevant policies and standards.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Experience of working in a Risk & Control type role / team within a Financial Services environment, with the ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset.
- Possess Technology Risk & Control Management industry standard qualifications (e.g. ISACA).
- Strong Excel skills including extensive experience in managing large quantities of data, pivots, formulas, lookups.
- Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior 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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The successful candidate can be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall) or Northampton (Pavilion Drive).
Purpose of the role
To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.
Accountabilities
- Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
- Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
- Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
- Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.
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.
