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

About the role

Embark on a transformative journey as a Platform & Portfolio Governance, Risk & Engineering Insights Lead – VP at Barclays. Our vision is to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Significant 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
• Able 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
• Significant 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
• Able 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

Barclays offers 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.

Pay

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

Schedule

The role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Vice President Expectations

• 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard