Group Technology Strategy Lead

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience in technology strategy, transformation, or enterprise level technology leadership
• Strong ability to translate complex strategy into clear, executable plans
• Understanding of large-scale technology environments, operating models, and investment governance
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at executive level
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and structured thinking capability,
• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills

Desirable Skills:

• Experience operating in regulated, global financial services environments
• Exposure to cloud, data, AI, and modern engineering practices
• Experience working across multiple technology domains or platforms

Purpose of the role

Role of Group Technology Strategy Lead sits within the CIO Office and supports shaping, articulating, and driving execution of the Group Technology strategy.  This role serves as a strategic partner to senior technology and business leaders, offering thought leadership, insight and challenge.

Accountabilities

• Supports evolution of Group Technology strategy in line with enterprise objectives, regulatory requirements, and market trends
• Translates strategic priorities into clear technology themes, roadmaps and measurable outcomes
• Builds strong partnerships across Group Technology and ensures consistency and coherence across technology strategies at Group, platform, and domain levels
• Supports the shaping of forward‑looking strategic options and influences decision‑making through data, insights, and clear articulation of trade‑offs and risks
• Partners with the Group Technology governance and performance insights team to track progress, benefits realization, and delivery performance against strategic objectives
• Ensures technology strategy aligns with enterprise governance, security, resilience, and regulatory expectations
• Fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned to the Group Technology strategy

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.