Job Title : Tech Standards Delivery Project Manager
Location : Glasgow
Company : Barclays UK
Salary :
Open Date : 2023-12-26
Close Date : 2024-04-26

Glasgow

As a Barclays Tech Standards Delivery Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of critical projects/requirements for the Tech Standards Programme across Markets & Research Technology. In your role, you will have exposure across the entire Markets & Research stack and partner with the leadership team to keep the stack current and stay on top of the quickly evolving cyber security space.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

Defining a high-level roadmap for mandated Technical Debt and Cyber Security priorities and ensure appropriate governance practices and forums are in place to maintain this

Ensuring Tech standards Management work with Cyber and Infrastructure partners to provide clear requirements for mandated priorities to the SPoCs and Delivery Teams

Making sure SPoCs are responsible for assessing requirements, defining adequate delivery plans that will achieve the outcomes required for success, and providing regular updates

Ensuring any changes to mandated priorities are approved or rejected by the Senior Leadership Group

Prioritizing best practices that ensure transparency, facilitate escalations, and enable execution of risk mitigation plans

Identifying continuous improvements, automation opportunities, and best practices while establishing the Tech Standards Portfolio governance

Owning project financials and resource requirements for both annual planning exercises and ongoing financial control

Being responsible for programme compliance with Barclays change control standards as required

What we’re looking for:

Excellent communication and relationship skills and stakeholder management

Proven ability to influence and manage across multiple teams and regions to deliver solutions to complex problems

Driven to apply order and process, yet flexible to adapt as needed for continuous improvement

Extensive experience as a technical project manager preferably in Cyber Security projects or Infrastructure upgrades

Skills that will help you in the role:

Technical infrastructure, application architecture and security protocols background

Naturally curious and attracted to complicated problems

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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