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

About the role

At Barclays, our vision is 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

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

• 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.

Skills

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

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.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• To 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.
• 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.
• To 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.
• To train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• To advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• To manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• To demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• To demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• To collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• To create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• To adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• To 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.