Electronic Trading and  Digital Asset Risk Manager

Join us as an Electronic Trading and  Digital Asset Risk Manager!

You’ll join Barclays at a moment where digital assets and electronic trading technologies are accelerating, and your work will directly shape how the bank adopts these innovations safely. As an Electronic Trading and Digital Assets Risk Manager, you’ll influence front‑to‑back governance, strengthen control frameworks, and ensure new digital capabilities — from tokenised deposits to algorithmic trading — are delivered in a secure, compliant and well‑controlled way. If you’re excited by emerging technology, hands‑on risk management, and high‑visibility impact, this role gives you a front‑row seat to the future of financial markets.

To be successful as an Electronic Trading and Digital Assets Risk Manager, you should have experience with:

• Operational risk management — strong grounding in risk identification, assessment, and control design.
• eTrading controls — understanding of order/transaction limits, kill switches, and electronic trading governance.
• Governance and control frameworks — experience designing, enhancing, or overseeing risk and control structures.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Digital asset and blockchain knowledge — familiarity with tokenisation, digital money solutions, and emerging market structures.
• Electronic and Algorithmic trading risk controls and Regulatory landscape
• Risk reporting — ability to produce concise, senior‑facing, audit‑ready risk outputs.
• Front‑office stakeholder engagement — confidence partnering with trading, technology, and product teams to embed robust controls.

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

Location: London only

Hybrid role: 3 days a week in office - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday

Purpose of the role

To set the risk appetite setting for the Trading portfolio and active calibration & monitoring of limits

Accountabilities

• Collection and analysis of market data from various sources and ensuring risk is correctly captured, modelled and capitalised.
• Escalation of critical risk issues or breaches to Traders and senior Risk Management Leadership teams for timely action, as may be required.
• Review and provision of feedback on market risk models including change governance.
• Internal, Regulatory and Scenario stress testing for the Trading portfolio, as required.
• Steer and execution projects of market risk wide-significance e.g. FRTB, One Risk, as required.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.