Job Description

Purpose of the role

To  lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
• Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
• Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
• Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
• Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

• The Front Office Risk Data Storage Lead is responsible for the management, delivery and execution of a strategic solution that works across markets, storing different types of Front Office risk data, both intraday, EOD, as well as catering to various scenarios requirements, and establish reliable and performant consumption patterns.  This role services all businesses in markets and forms part of the Core Risk Horizontal team and will be a key component of a multi-year Front to Back Risk Program Delivery.
• The Program Driven Initiatives focus primarily within the Fixed Income Risk Platforms and Core Shared Risk Platforms which are undergoing wide-scale re-development and a migration to cloud and require a Director to guide and lead these renovations
• The Co-Funded initiatives ensure all relevant Risk Storage and Consumption related programs are managed and delivered with a view to migrating away from current platform to target strategic state i.e. to take active part in the design and delivery of these co-funded initiatives to ensure they are developed for the strategic purpose
• The individual will be responsible for executing a Risk data strategy including aggregation, virtualisation and visualisation of Risk data
• The individual will be a senior technology leader with extensive experience in building scalable and resilient data storage platforms, ideally with experience within Risk space.  Needs to be aware of the latest trends in Risk based technology and cloud compute
• The individual will also be responsible to execute and implement engineering excellence practices and helping the platforms scale towards being aligned to agile ways of delivery through CI/CD pipeline and full DevOps implementation.  The key measure of success will be business and engineering productivity and shorter lead times for delivery.
• The individual will demonstrate strong analytical skills to be able to drive architectural and engineering changes across the platforms
• The individual will be comfortable working across organisational boundaries, breaking down silos and demonstrate strong collaboration across areas