Cyber Risk Service Manager

We're looking for a strategic and experienced Cyber Risk Service Manager to support the delivery, governance, and continual improvement of Cyber Security Services across the Bank. You'll be responsible for managing cyber risk, service performance, and operational resilience, providing senior leadership with insight and direction, and ensuring technology services remain secure, resilient, and aligned to business objectives. Acting as a key representative for Technology Services, you'll work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to drive operational excellence, strengthen control effectiveness, and support the Bank's ongoing success.

To be successful as a Cyber Risk Service Manager, you should have experience with:

• Using AI technology tools as part of daily work, including technical evaluation, report generation, plan development, executive reporting, and decision support. Experience simplifying processes, reducing manual effort, and leveraging automation tools.

• The ability to break down complex technical assignments, assess risk and business impact, and prioritise actions using data-driven insights.

• The ability to work across a highly matrixed organisation to drive progress and deliver broad objectives. Ability to engage technical teams, senior leadership, suppliers, control functions, and business stakeholders.

• Experience with and an understanding of cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, risk management methodologies, and the processes used to address and mitigate them.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Using tools such as Python, PowerShell, and other automation technologies to reduce manual effort and improve operational effectiveness.

• A strong understanding of data models, reporting, trend analysis, and the ability to build meaningful views and dashboards to support business objectives.

• Capability to interpret operational and risk data, identify emerging trends, and drive evidence-based decision making.

• Knowledge of operational risk, controls, compliance, resilience, cyber recovery, governance, and risk management processes.

• Good ability to map and understand technical systems, their interconnections, and the end-to-end flows that drive customer outcomes, including architecture, identity flows, network trust relationships, authentication mechanisms, and business processes.

• Experience supporting risk governance forums, tracking remediation activities, and driving sustainable risk reduction across technology environments.

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 location of your role is Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To manage the IT Services department and set the strategic direction, provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage IT Service risk across the organisation management of IT Services to support the banks operations and representing Technology service performance with senior stakeholders and managing IT service risk across the organisation.   

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for IT Services, including the implementation of up-to- date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the IT Services department, including oversight of IT Services colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.  .
• Relationship management of IT Services stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures for IT Services, implementation and adherence of control targets and standards, policies and procedures for IT Services, managing adherence to group SLAs and controls associated with core technology production activities in incident, problem, and change.
• Management of IT Services risk, including identification of potential IT Services risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s change and compliance functions.  .
• Monitoring the financial performance of the IT Services department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control, driving value from any commercial agreements, strong management of any directly controlled costs etc.
• Management of IT Services projects, including driving successful research and related product launches, and deliverance of integrated solutions to clients.
• Effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

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.