Senior Technology Lead - VP

Join us as Senior Technology Lead, where you will be the local Technology face-off for regulatory advisories, mandate adherence, inspections, and audits, coordinating with wider Technology teams to assess regulatory impact, define mutually agreed timelines, and ensure timely submissions and escalations. You will work closely with Tech Controls and Cyber Security to drive a unified governance approach, proactively identify Technology risks and control gaps, and collaborate with stakeholders to build and validate mitigating solutions. You will be responsible for documenting Technology issues, control gaps, and risk events in the Risks and Controls System, project managing key Technology deliverables, and ensuring progress on remediation, funding, and prioritization. You will maintain an updated inventory of all Technology regulatory obligations and stakeholder mappings across the Technology estate, contribute to governance forums, and use automation (including AI) to streamline regulatory and audit workflows. You will also be required to adapt quickly to shifting priorities, align teams accordingly, and ensure timely and accurate responses across the Technology landscape.

To be successful in this role, you should:

• Demonstrate strong Technology acumen, governance depth, and the ability to challenge technical inputs.
• Possess strong communication, project management, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Be able to work effectively across distributed Technology teams.

Essential Skills / Basic Qualifications:

• Strong Technology background with the ability to interpret and challenge Technology asks in audits and regulatory queries.
• Experience evaluating solution options for automation and ensuring they close control gaps.
• Financial services domain understanding, especially Investment Banking.
• Strong Technology Risk & Controls exposure and familiarity with Technology Governance frameworks.
• Experience representing or coordinating Technology in regulatory inspections and audits.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and senior stakeholder management experience.
• Strong project management, networking, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to check and challenge internal and external stakeholders.
• Academic qualification: B.Tech / MCA.

Desirable Skills / Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Corporate Bank Technology Controls.
• Exposure to RBI CSITE inspections/examinations.
• Understanding of current regulations impacting Technology in financial services.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as:

• Effective management and tracking of Technology deliverables.
• Timely escalation and adherence to commitments made to regulators and auditors.
• Governance discipline and cross-functional coordination effectiveness.

Job location is Mumbai.

Purpose of the role

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus. 

Accountabilities

• Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management:  Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

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.